Clinical and epidemiological baseline characterization of dementia cases in a specialized center in Recife
Mariana Albuquerque de Luna, Camila Oliveira Negri, Bruna Cristina de Oliveira Lima, João Augusto de Macedo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Bárbara Nascimento Moutinho, Ilo de Vasconcelos Ximenes Júnior, Mariana Leandro Silva, Tatiana Caldas Neves da Silva, Barbara Matos Almeida Queiroz, Breno José Alenc · 2025
Read Clinical and epidemiological baseline characterization of dementia cases in a specialized center in Recife by Mariana Albuquerque de Luna, Camila Oliveira Negri, Bruna Cristina de Oliveira Lima, João Augusto de Macedo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Bárbara Nascimento Moutinho, Ilo de Vasconcelos Ximenes Júnior, Mariana Leandro Silva, Tatiana Caldas Neves da Silva, Barbara Matos Almeida Queiroz, Breno José Alenc (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11712047.txt.
Description
Mariana Albuquerque de Luna and co-authors describe dementia care at a specialist clinic in Recife, Brazil, in 2025. Dementia is rising fast, above all in poorer countries, yet reports from Brazil's northeast are scarce. Recife is a large city in a region marked by deep inequality and low literacy.
The team reviewed records of patients seen from 2018 to 2023, keeping 137 of 168 charts. Patients averaged sixty-six years old, and over a fifth could not read. Alzheimer's disease was the top diagnosis at a quarter of cases. Family care fell mostly to adult children, the record shows, for both women and men in the clinic.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mariana Albuquerque de Luna, Camila Oliveira Negri, Bruna Cristina de Oliveira Lima, João Augusto de Macedo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Bárbara Nascimento Moutinho, Ilo de Vasconcelos Ximenes Júnior, Mariana Leandro Silva, Tatiana Caldas Neves da Silva, Barbara Matos Almeida Queiroz, Breno José Alenc |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |