The Egyptian Dementia Network (EDN): Baseline characteristics from the first dementia registry in an African Arab country

Dementia is a growing public health challenge in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) like Egypt, where data are scarce. The Egyptian Dementia Network (EDN) registry addresses this gap by capturing epidemiological, clinical, and environmental data across Egypt.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Alzheimer's & Dementia

• Publication date

  2025-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/alz.70770PMID 41216919PMCID 12603777
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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