%0 Journal Article
%T The Cretan Aging Cohort: Cohort Description and Burden of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
%A Alexandros N. Vgontzas
%A Andreas Plaitakis
%A Antonios Bertsias
%A Chariklia Tziraki
%A Christos Lionis
%A Dimitrios Boumpas
%A George Duijker
%A Ioannis V. Zaganas
%A Irini Koutentaki
%A Maria Basta
%A Nikolaos Fountoulakis
%A Nikolaos Scarmeas
%A Panagiotis Simos
%A Stefania Kapetanaki
%A Symeon Panagiotakis
%J American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias£¿
%@ 1938-2731
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1533317518802414
%X Our aim was to explore the burden of dementia in the Cretan Aging Cohort, comprised of 3140 persons aged ¡Ư60 years (56.8% women, 5.8 ¡À 3.3 years formal education, 86.2% living in rural areas) who attended selected primary health-care facilities on the island of Crete, Greece. In the first study phase, a formal diagnosis of dementia had been reached in 4.0% of the participants. However, when selected 505 participants underwent thorough neuropsychiatric evaluation in the second phase of this study (344 with Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] <24 and 161 with MMSE ¡Ư24), and results were extrapolated to the entire cohort, the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment was estimated at 10.8% (9.7%-11.9%) and 32.4% (30.8%-34.0%), respectively. Using both the field diagnostic data and the extrapolated data, the highest dementia prevalence (27.2%) was found in the 80- to 84-year-old group, who also showed the lowest educational level, apparently due to lack of schooling during World War II
%K dementia
%K education and dementia
%K mild cognitive impairment
%K dementia burden
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1533317518802414