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Recent global trends in the prevalence and incidence of dementia, and survival with dementia
Predisposing and precipitating factors for delirium in community-dwelling older adults admitted to hospital with this condition: A prospective case series
Outcome of the living kidney donor
Renal transplantation from living kidney donors is still
relatively marginal in most of the European countries.
However, this source of kidney grafts may help to overcome
in part the organ donor shortage of cadaveric donors.
The living donor strategy implies correct and objective
information about donation risks and completely free acceptance
of the living candidate of the donation. In this
paper, we reviewed the consequences of kidney donation
on the living donor health, considering very short term
(linked to the surgery), short term (effect of nephrectomy
on glomerular filtration rate) and long term (risk of mortality,
chronic kidney disease, proteinuria and hypertension)
consequences of kidney donation
The changing prevalence and incidence of dementia over time — current evidence
Dementia is an increasing focus for policymakers, civil organizations and multidisciplinary researchers. The most recent descriptive epidemiological research into dementia is enabling investigation into how the prevalence and incidence are changing over time. To establish clear trends, such comparisons need to be founded on population-based studies that use similar diagnostic and research methods consistently over time. This narrative Review synthesizes the findings from 14 studies that investigated trends in dementia prevalence (nine studies) and incidence (five studies) from Sweden, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, France, the USA, Japan and Nigeria. Besides the Japanese study, these studies indicate stable or declining prevalence and incidence of dementia, and some provide evidence of sex-specific changes. No single risk or protective factor has been identified that fully explains the observed trends, but major societal changes and improvements in living conditions, education and healthcare might have favourably influenced physical, mental and cognitive health throughout an individual's life course, and could be responsible for a reduced risk of dementia in later life. Analytical epidemiological approaches combined with translational neuroscientific research could provide a unique opportunity to explore the neuropathology that underlies changing occurrence of dementia in the general population