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Prediction of population with Alzheimer's disease in the European Union using a system dynamics model

Overview of attention for article published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, June 2016
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Title
Prediction of population with Alzheimer's disease in the European Union using a system dynamics model
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, June 2016
DOI 10.2147/ndt.s107969
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Hana Tomaskova, Jitka Kuhnova, Richard Cimler, Ondrej Dolezal, Kamil Kuca

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressing neurodegenerative brain disease with irreversible brain effects; it is the most common cause of dementia. With increasing age, the probability of suffering from AD increases. In this research, population growth of the European Union (EU) until the year 2080 and the number of patients with AD are modeled. The aim of this research is to predict the spread of AD in the EU population until year 2080 using a computer simulation. For the simulation of the EU population and the occurrence of AD in this population, a system dynamics modeling approach has been used. System dynamics is a useful and effective method for the investigation of complex social systems. Over the past decades, its applicability has been demonstrated in a wide variety of applications. In this research, this method has been used to investigate the growth of the EU population and predict the number of patients with AD. The model has been calibrated on the population prediction data created by Eurostat. Based on data from Eurostat, the EU population until year 2080 has been modeled. In 2013, the population of the EU was 508 million and the number of patients with AD was 7.5 million. Based on the prediction, in 2040, the population of the EU will be 524 million and the number of patients with AD will be 13.1 million. By the year 2080, the EU population will be 520 million and the number of patients with AD will be 13.7 million. System dynamics modeling approach has been used for the prediction of the number of patients with AD in the EU population till the year 2080. These results can be used to determine the economic burden of the treatment of these patients. With different input data, the simulation can be used also for the different regions as well as for different noncontagious disease predictions.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Researcher 9 11%
Student > Master 9 11%
Other 6 7%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 27 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 8 9%
Engineering 7 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Other 23 27%
Unknown 31 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 July 2016.
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