06.02.01. What is the estimated prevalence and incidence of dementia and the source of these estimates? | Kenya

06.02.01. What is the estimated prevalence and incidence of dementia and the source of these estimates? | Kenya

01 Apr 2022

In 2016, the number of prevalent cases for dementia in Kenya was 61,120 and revealed a minor reduction of –2.1% (95% uncertainty Interval [UI] –2.8 to –1.5) from 1990 to 2016 (Nichols et al., 2019).

References:

Nichols, E., Szoeke, C. E. I., Vollset, S. E., Abbasi, N., Abd-Allah, F., Abdela, J., … Murray, C. J. L. (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Neurology, 18(1), 88–106. http://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30403-4