Differences between East and West may affect dementia studies: Thoughts from the KSA dementia prevalence study

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

3-20-2025

Journal

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

DOI

10.1177/13872877251328965

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; epidemiology; prevalence; statistics

Abstract

While science is the same in the East and West, certain personal characteristics may distort scientific results. This is more likely in the East. An example may be a recent project in the East that measured the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease dementia in a very large group. They found it to be near 1%, which seems very low. Studies that show a low prevalence of Alzheimer's disease dementia could be due to an examination of a very healthy group with very few older people, and/or poor/inaccurate testing (none of which were in this study). Another possibility is that the person, their family or their doctor aim at ignoring or hiding a diagnosis of dementia.

Department

Medicine

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