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Projections Of Alzheimer's Disease In The United States And The Public Health Impact Of Delaying Disease Onset., Ron Brookmeyer, Sarah Gray, Claudia Kawas
Projections Of Alzheimer's Disease In The United States And The Public Health Impact Of Delaying Disease Onset., Ron Brookmeyer, Sarah Gray, Claudia Kawas
Ron Brookmeyer
OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to project the future prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the potential impact of interventions to delay disease onset.
METHODS: The numbers of individuals in the United States with Alzheimer's disease and the numbers of newly diagnosed cases that can be expected over the next 50 years were estimated from a model that used age-specific incidence rates summarized from several epidemiological studies, US mortality rates, and US Bureau of the Census projections.
RESULTS: in 1997, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States was 2.32 million (range: …