Predictors of Dementia in the Oldest Old: A Novel Machine Learning Approach.
CONCLUSIONS: An atheoretical machine learning method revealed several factors associated with increased probability of dementia after age 85 years in a population-based cohort. If independently validated in other cohorts, these findings could help identify the oldest-old at the highest risk of dementia.
PMID: 32701513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord Source Type: research
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