Article of the month: July 2021

The website committee selected for publication of the month July:

The prevalence of young onset dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.042738

How common is young-onset dementia? In JAMA Neurology, a meta-analysis of Hendriks and colleagues (Maastricht University) including 74 studies encompassing 2.8 million adults ages 30 to 64 has been published. Overall, they estimate 119 per 100.000 people develop young-onset dementia, amounting to 3.9 million cases worldwide.