Latin America has been under-represented in dementia clinical trials, we must turn the corner…

The world’s population is aging, life expectancy is increasing in the past century as result of the improvements in healthcare and the people arrive to live longer and healthier. However, this has also resulted in increase the number of people with age-related diseases like most of dementia etiologi...

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Autores:
Allegri, Ricardo Francisco
Román, Fabian
Barcelo, Ernesto
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2022
Institución:
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/9957
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/9957
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Latin America
dementia clinical
clinical trials
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Summary:The world’s population is aging, life expectancy is increasing in the past century as result of the improvements in healthcare and the people arrive to live longer and healthier. However, this has also resulted in increase the number of people with age-related diseases like most of dementia etiologies (fundamentally Alzheimer and Vascular dementia). The growth of people with dementia in the next 20 years will be exponential around the world but even more in those countries with Low and Medium Incomes (LMIC) due to the recently and future improve in health care and quality of life.