Risk and sex-specific trends of dementia and stroke in Italy Compared to European and high-income countries and the world: global implications

Affiliations

• ¹ Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ² Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Neurovascular Treatment Unit, Spaziani Hospital, Frosinone, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Family Medicine and Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.
• ⁷ The Africa Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
• ⁸ Division of Epidemiology, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ¹⁰ Women's Health Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neurosciences (DiBraiN), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
• ¹² Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Aging Brain at Pia Fondazione "Card. G. Panico", University of Bari, Tricase (Lecce), Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Neurology, Public Health, and Disability, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. [email protected].
• ¹⁵ Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. [email protected].
• ¹⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. [email protected].
• ¹⁷ Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St. N., London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada. [email protected].