07.01.03. Please provide the number of people who received a diagnostic assessment in the most recent year for which data are available | Kenya
07.01.03. Please provide the number of people who received a diagnostic assessment in the most recent year for which data are available | Kenya
01 Apr 2022
Dementia cases are not routinely monitored in Kenya. According to a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study involving 195 countries (including Kenya) in 2016, the number of prevalent cases for dementia in Kenya was 61,120 (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