(HealthDay)—The overall global age-standardized prevalence of young-onset dementia (YOD), in which symptoms start before age 65 years, is 119.0 per 100,000 population, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online July 19 in JAMA Neurology.
Stevie Hendricks, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues examined the global prevalence of YOD. The systematic review included 95 unique studies, of which 74 with 2,760,379 unique patients, were included in five-year age band meta-analyses.
The researchers observed an increase in the age-standardized prevalence estimates from 1.1 to 77.4 per 100,000 population among those aged 30 to 34 years and for those…
