Which Stratum of Urban Elderly Is Most Vulnerable for Dementia?
Journal of Korean Medical Science
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: 1635-1640, 2016.
Artículo
en Inglés
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-93749
ABSTRACT
Many factors associated with a patient's lifestyle may disrupt timely access to dementia diagnosis and management. The aim of this study was to compare characteristics of lifestyle factors at the time of initial evaluation for dementia across degrees of dementia, and to identify risk factors relating to late detection of dementia, in order to understand the various lifestyle barriers to timely recognition of the disease. We reviewed medical records of 1,409 subjects who were diagnosed as dementia among 35,723 inhabitants of Gwangjin-gu. Dementia severity was divided into three degrees. Age, sex, education, income, smoking, heavy drinking, physical activity, religion, and living conditions were evaluated. There was a significantly greater proportion of individuals who were old age, female, less educated, who had never smoked or drank heavily, without physical activity, with no religious activity and living with family other than spouse in the severe dementia group. The lifestyle risks of late detection were old age, lower education, less social interactions, less physical activity or living with family. We can define this group of patients as the vulnerable stratum to dementia evaluation. Health policy or community health services might find ways to better engage patients in this vulnerable stratum to dementia.
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Asunto principal:
Humo
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Condiciones Sociales
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Fumar
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Tamizaje Masivo
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Registros Médicos
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Factores de Riesgo
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Servicios de Salud Comunitaria
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Esposos
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Demencia
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Diagnóstico
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
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Estudio de etiología
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Estudio pronóstico
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Factores de riesgo
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Estudio de tamizaje
Límite:
Anciano
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Femenino
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Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Journal of Korean Medical Science
Año:
2016
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Artículo
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