Temporal Trends and Geographic Variations in Dementia Mortality in China Between 2006 and 2012: Multilevel Evidence From a Nationally Representative Sample.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that regional inequalities in dementia mortality are salient, and the increase in mortality rates in rural areas is an emerging public health challenge in China. Tailored preventive health strategies should be in place to narrow down this avoidable and wholly unnecessary inequality. PMID: 26999577 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord Source Type: research