06.02.02. Please outline the total deaths and Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to dementia and the source of these estimates | Kenya

06.02.02. Please outline the total deaths and Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to dementia and the source of these estimates | Kenya

01 Apr 2022

A total of 3205 deaths were attributed to dementia in 2016 showing an increase of 15.3% (95% UI 2.0 to 43.5) in age-standardised rates from 1990 to 2016 (Nichols et al., 2019). However, there is no information on YLL due to dementia specifically for Kenya.

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