Moralejo Alonso M L, Fuertes Martín A
Servicio de Medicina Interna II, Hospital Universitario, Salamanca.
An Med Interna. 2004 Dec;21(12):602-6. doi: 10.4321/s0212-71992004001200009.
Due to the increase of the life expectancy the prevalence of the patients with dementia in the services of Internal Medicine is very high (30% in the patients with more of 80 years old). The incidence of the potentially reversible dementias is very different in the publications consulted (10-30%). The objective of these study is to know the real incidence of these dementias and which is the best diagnostic protocol to optimize the resources. The conclusions obtained in the bibliographical review it is that the effect of this type of dementias is minor that the mentioned (1.5-3%).
由于预期寿命的增加，内科服务中痴呆患者的患病率非常高（80岁以上患者中占30%）。在所查阅的文献中，潜在可逆性痴呆的发病率差异很大（10%-30%）。本研究的目的是了解这些痴呆的实际发病率以及哪种诊断方案最能优化资源。文献综述得出的结论是，这类痴呆的影响比上述的要小（1.5%-3%）。
