Open AccessIncidence and Risk Profile of Dementia in the Regions of Middle East and North Africa
Author(s) -
Devender Bhalla,
Elham Lotfalinezhad,
Fatemah Amini,
Mohsen Salmannejad,
Vahid Reza Borhani Nezhad,
Seyedeh Fatemeh Rezai kooshalshah,
Ahmed Delbari,
Reza Fadayevatan,
I. Irmansyah,
Abdalla Abdelrahman,
Nanda Kumar Bhatta,
Kurosh Gharagozli
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000487761
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , incidence (geometry) , life expectancy , cumulative incidence , demography , middle east , gerontology , geography , cohort , environmental health , population , disease , physics , archaeology , sociology , optics
The risk of dementia is reported as "epidemic" and "looming" over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. For this, we performed a multi-language review and feasible analysis on the incidence of dementia to offer apt conclusions.