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Kjeld Andersen
Researcher at University of Southern Denmark
Publications - 115
Citations - 8959
Kjeld Andersen is an academic researcher from University of Southern Denmark. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Alcohol use disorder. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 100 publications receiving 8226 citations. Previous affiliations of Kjeld Andersen include Odense University & Odense University Hospital.
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Prevalence of dementia and major subtypes in Europe : A collaborative study of population-based cohorts
A. Lobo,Lenore J. Launer,Laura Fratiglioni,Kjeld Andersen,A. Di Carlo,Monique M.B. Breteler,John R. M. Copeland,J. F. Dartigues,Carol Jagger,J.M. Martinez-Lage,Hilkka Soininen,Albert Hofman +11 more
TL;DR: Dementia is more prevalent in women, and AD is the main contributor to the steep increase of prevalence with age, so a large variation across studies was observed, as well as a difference in prevalence between men and women that was age dependent.
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Prevalence and characteristics of dementia in Parkinson disease: an 8-year prospective study.
TL;DR: Early hallucinations and akinetic-dominant PD were associated with an increased risk of dementia, and more than three quarters of this representative PD cohort developed dementia during the 8-year study period.
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Incidence of dementia and major subtypes in Europe: A collaborative study of population-based cohorts. Neurologic Diseases in the Elderly Research Group.
Laura Fratiglioni,Lenore J. Launer,Kjeld Andersen,Monique M.B. Breteler,Copeland,J. F. Dartigues,A. Lobo,J. M. Martinez-Lage,H. Soininen,A. Hofman +9 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed that AD is the most frequent dementing disorder in all ages, and that there is a higher incidence of dementia, specifically AD, in women than men among the very old, and there may be regional differences in dementia incidence.
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Rates and risk factors for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease Results from EURODEM pooled analyses
Lenore J. Launer,Kjeld Andersen,Michael E. Dewey,Luc Letenneur,Alewijn Ott,L. Amaducci,Carol Brayne,John R. M. Copeland,J. F. Dartigues,Per Kragh-Sørensen,A. Lobo,J. M. Martinez-Lage,Theo Stijnen,Albert Hofman +13 more
TL;DR: Female gender, current smoking, and low levels of education, and current smoking increased the risk of AD significantly, while head trauma was not a risk factor for AD, and smoking did not protect against AD.
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Risk of dementia in Parkinson’s disease: A community-based, prospective study
Dag Aarsland,Kjeld Andersen,Jan Petter Larsen,A. Lolk,Helle Hvilsted Nielsen,Per Kragh-Sørensen +5 more
TL;DR: Patients with PD have an almost sixfold increased risk for becoming demented compared with subjects without PD.