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Burden of disease due to dementia in the elderly population of Korea: present and future

2013; BioMed Central; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1471-2458-13-293

1471-2458

Jae‐Hyun Park, Jin-Hee Eum, Bolor Bold, Hae‐Kwan Cheong,

Health disparities and outcomes

With the rapid aging of populations around the world, dementia has become one of the most important public health problems in Eastern Asian countries. The purpose of the present study was to provide an estimate of the burden of dementia and forecast its future burden, as generalized to the Korean population, and to provide detailed gender- and age-specific information regarding the burden of dementia in the elderly population of Korea.