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COMMENT I think CMS made the right call here. We need to devote the money and effort required to ensure adequate recruitment of the minoritized. It must be done, and I believe since there are now—for the first time in clinical trials of AD—real consequences for n
COMMENT This interesting paper agrees well with the findings in our NEJM paper (Satizabal et al., 2016) that the sharpest decline was in the last epoch. Also that decline in vascular risk factors does not "explain" the trend. And the increase in diabete
COMMENT This very interesting paper illustrates the value of national general practitioner databases, as available in the Netherlands, and the caveats in replacing carefully collected epidemiological data with data abstracted from medical records. In the latter,
COMMENT This paper from the Health and Retirement study estimates the prevalence of dementia in 2012 compared to 2000, finds a decrease in dementia prevalence, and tries to examine possible causes. The strengths of the study are the large samples of ~10,000 perso
