OBJECTIVES: A cross-sectional survey was conducted to estimate prevalence of @entity303 and to determine factors related to @entity303 among residents in a rural area, Yonchon county, Korea, in 1993. @entity1 : Of the study population more than 65 years of age (n = 2171), 1674 @entity1 participated in the cross-sectional survey using the Korean version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE-K). DESIGN: Subjects were defined as having @entity303 according to NINCDS-ADRDA criteria through direct interview by psychiatrists. A total of 436 subjects were selected randomly according to MMSE-K scores, and cases were confirmed as having either @entity1294 . RESULTS: The adjusted prevalence of @entity303 was estimated at 9.5%. The prevalence of total @entity303 was 8.8% for @entity1 and 9.9% for @entity1 . The prevalence of @entity195 was 3.2% for @entity1 and 5.3% for @entity1 and that of @entity1294 3.1% and 2.1%, respectively. Age-standardized prevalence of @entity195 was 4.5%, whereas that of @entity1294 was 2.5%. Using DSM-III-R criteria to stratify @entity303 @entity1 according to severity showed the prevalence of mild, moderate, and severe @entity195 was 3.4%, 0.7%, and 0.5%, respectively. CONCLUSION: These results showed that the prevalence of @entity303 in Korea was similar to its presence in Western countries but different from that previously reported in other Asian countries, e.g., China and Japan.

Prevalence estimation of XXXX in a rural area of Korea.

@entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['dementia'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'PARTICIPANTS', 'persons', 'men'] @entity1294 :: ('MESH:D015140', 'Disease') :: ['vascular dementia', "Alzheimer's or vascular dementia"] @entity195 :: ('MESH:D000544', 'Disease') :: ["Alzheimer's disease"]
@entity303 :: (MESH:D003704,Disease) :: ['dementia']
