Cross‐national harmonization of cognitive impairment and dementia diagnosis across US and Latin American populations
Jorge J Llibre‐Guerra, Jordan Weiss, Jing Li, Chris Soria, Ana M Rodriguez‐Salgado, Juan J Llibre‐Rodriguez, Ivonne Z Jiménez‐Velazquez, Daisy M Acosta, Mao‐Mei Liu, William H Dow · 2025
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Jorge J Llibre-Guerra and nine co-authors work out a shared way to diagnose dementia across the United States and Latin America, in this 2025 study. Countries use different test methods, which makes world comparisons of dementia rates unreliable. The team adapted a diagnostic method built for lower income countries so it could also run on data from a major United States study.
The combined sample held 5,649 adults aged seventy and older, mostly from Latin American sites. The adapted method matched the original's accuracy in its home data. Against full clinical diagnoses in the United States data, it beat the telephone test score method now in common use, with both sensitivity and specificity near ninety percent. A shared yardstick should sharpen global work on who gets dementia and why.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jorge J Llibre‐Guerra, Jordan Weiss, Jing Li, Chris Soria, Ana M Rodriguez‐Salgado, Juan J Llibre‐Rodriguez, Ivonne Z Jiménez‐Velazquez, Daisy M Acosta, Mao‐Mei Liu, William H Dow |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |