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mexico, like many low- and middle-income countries (lmics), faces an epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases (ncds), specifically diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and lipid disorders. many people with these ncds may not be aware that they have a disease, pointing to the need for broader screening programs. the traditional prevention policy in mexico was based on screening with a paper-bas...

The increase in Alzheimers disease is due to the aging of the population and is the first cause of neurodegenerative disorders. Progressive development of cognitive, emotional and behavior troubles leads to the loss of autonomy and to dependency of people, which corresponds to the dementia phase. Language disorders are among the first clinical cognitive signs of the disease. Our objective is to...

Background/Aims: Proverb interpretation is assumed to reflect executive functions. We hypothesized that proverb interpretation is impaired in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) diagnosed as single-domain impairment by common neuropsychological testing. Methods: We compared performance in a proverb interpretation test in single-domain aMCI patients and patients with early Al...

1 Chertkow, H., Feldman, H. H., Jacova, C., & Massoud, F. (2013). Definitions of dementia and predementia states in Alzheimer's disease and vascular cognitive impairment: consensus from the Canadian conference on diagnosis of dementia. Alzheimers Research and Therapy, 5, S2. Notes: There have been several newly proposed sets of diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease/mild cognitive impairme...