Documentation
Description:
Dementia ranks among the 5 leading causes of health loss and death for individuals over 60 years of age in the United States (US). Dementia currently has no cure, underscoring the urgent need to understand its modifiable risk factors that individuals and policymakers can target to avoid or slow cognitive decline. Through this project, with financial support from AARP and the AD Data Initiative, we completed the most comprehensive assessment to date of key drivers of dementia in the US. We compared the magnitude of association and consistency of the evidence for 12 risk factors and used these results combined with estimates of risk factor exposure to quantify the percentage and total amount of dementia health loss attributed to each risk factor by sex and age and over time in the US and each individual state. A link to the IHME-maintained dashboard representing the available dataset can be found here: brainhealthatlas.org/data/dementia-drivers.
Coverage
Spatial:
US
Follow Up:
Unknown
Provenance
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Static
Start Date:
01 January 2026
Time Lag:
Not applicable
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
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Usage
Resource Creators:
Xaviera Steele
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
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Observation Date
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0
Count
01 January 2026