Occurrence of young-onset dementia

What The Study Did:

This study included a meta-analysis that combined the results of 74 studies with 2.7 million participants to estimate how common globally dementia is in people younger than age 65.

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Sebastian Köhler, Ph.D., of Maastricht University in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is the corresponding author.

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