Estimating the Lifetime Risk of Dementia in the Canadian Elderly Population Using Cross-Sectional Cohort Survival Data
利用横截面队列生存数据估计加拿大老年人痴呆终生风险
Dementia is one of the world's major public health challenges. The lifetime risk of dementia is the proportion of individuals who ever develop dementia during their lifetime. Despite its importance to epidemiologists and policy-makers, this measure does not seem to have been estimated in the Canadian population. Data from a birth cohort study of dementia are not available. Instead, we must rely on data from the Canadian Study of Heath and Aging, a large cross-sectional study…