Dementia is three times more common among people with essential tremor, results from a longitudinal study showed.
In a prospective, longitudinal study, incidence of dementia was nearly 20% among older adults with ET. However, the rates were lower than those in adults with
The findings will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 2024 Annual Meeting on April 17, 2024.For the study, 222 adults with ET with an average age of 79 years at baseline underwent detailed cognitive assessments and were followed for an average of 5 years. During the follow-up, the cumulative prevalence of dementia was 18.5%, and the average annual conversion rate of MCI to dementia was 12.2% — nearly threefold higher than rates in the general population and roughly one half the magnitude of those reported for adults with Parkinson's disease.
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