Assessment of dementia risk using three common screening tools at baseline predicts incident dementia over the course of about seven years, according to a study published in the September/October issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
Lennard L. van Wanrooij, from the University of Amsterdam, and colleagues used data from 3,454 community-dwelling older persons who participated in the six- to eight-year Prevention of Dementia by Intensive Vascular Care trial to evaluate the associations between incident dementia, responses to a single question regarding subjective memory complaints (SMCs), and combined scores on two simple memory tests.
The researchers found that SMCs alone were associated with future dementia (hazard…
