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Subjects were screened and excluded if they had acute or major medical diseases (e.g., malignancy, heart failure, or infection), severe cardiac arrhythmia or frequent ectopic heartbeats, dementia (defined by clinical dementia rating scale >0.5), or a history of mental illness.
Dementia, defined as a Mini-Mental-Test score below 24, was an exclusion criterion.
By contrast, Sitzer et al 7 reviewed 5 non-RCTs and 12 RCTs of cognitive interventions in dementia, defined by whether compensatory or restorative approaches were used.
The number is limited to one main informal caregiver per older person with dementia, defined as the person who is most involved in care for the people with dementia.
The item analysis was also performed for the subgroups with mild, moderate, and severe dementia, defined by the MMSE score (0 9 points: severe dementia; 10 17 points: moderate dementia, 18 23 points: mild dementia).
We will recruit 50 informal carers of people with advanced dementia, defined as unpaid informal carer (eg, family member or friend in regular contact and who is the next of kin or a 'key decision maker').
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α-Synuclein plays a crucial role in Parkinson's disease and dementias defined as synucleinopathies.
Incident dementia was defined by a dementia-free period in 2007/08, and a first dementia diagnosis in 2009 or 2010.
Incident dementia was defined for all individuals without a dementia diagnosis in the 2-year period 2004/05 and a first dementia diagnosis in 2006 or 2007.
Dementia was defined by Read medical codes for AD, vascular dementia or other dementia.
Dementia was defined using the EDC NUR11 category "dementia and delirium", once delirium diagnoses were excluded.
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