Zurique Sánchez Cristina, Cadena Sanabria Miguel Oswaldo, Zurique Sánchez Marina, Camacho López Paul Anthony, Sánchez Sanabria Marina, Hernández Hernández Santiago, Velásquez Vanegas Karen, Ustate Valera Andrea
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Programa de Medicina, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander, Clínica Carlos Ardila Lulle-FOSCAL, Departamento de Medicina Interna y Geriatria, Bucaramanga, Colombia; Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2019 Nov-Dec;54(6):346-355. doi: 10.1016/j.regg.2018.12.007. Epub 2019 Feb 14.
Dementia is a growing public health problem. It involves the impairment of several cognitive functions, generating mental and physical disability, and therefore greater functional dependence. There is limited epidemiological information which reveals an approximate prevalence in older adults from Latin America. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of dementia in the older adult population of Latin America, and its distribution according to geographic area and gender.
A systematic review was carried out in databases: PubMed, Ovid, Lilacs, Cochrane, Scielo and Google Scholar, in order to identify studies that estimate the prevalence of dementia in urban and / or rural population over 65 years of age.
On February 2018, the literature search yielded 357 publications. The overall prevalence of dementia in the older adult population of Latin America was found to be 11%, prevailing more in female gender and urban people.
The prevalence of dementia in Latin America is higher than registered previously, and even than in other continents.
痴呆是一个日益严重的公共卫生问题。它涉及多种认知功能的损害，导致精神和身体残疾，进而造成更大程度的功能依赖。关于拉丁美洲老年人中痴呆症患病率的流行病学信息有限。本研究的目的是确定拉丁美洲老年人口中痴呆症的患病率，以及其按地理区域和性别的分布情况。
在PubMed、Ovid、Lilacs、Cochrane、Scielo和谷歌学术等数据库中进行了系统综述，以识别估计65岁以上城市和/或农村人口中痴呆症患病率的研究。
2018年2月，文献检索共获得357篇出版物。拉丁美洲老年人口中痴呆症的总体患病率为11%，女性和城市人口中更为普遍。
拉丁美洲痴呆症的患病率高于此前记录，甚至高于其他各大洲。
