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Background and purpose
Large‐scale studies of utilization of medical services among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are lacking. We aimed to investigate the usage of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) among these patients in Taiwan.
Methods
We analyzed one million samples from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. Patients (n = 1814) newly diagnosed...
Objectives
To determine the interrelationships between baseline Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE) score and overall long‐term risk of cerebrovascular disease (CBVD).
Materials & methods
This was a prospective cohort study of subjects aged 55 years or more who were enrolled in the Beijing Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) and had a baseline MMSE score available. Baseline MMSE score was divided...
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