Occupational risk factors for dementia in a sample of older adults covered by the iranian oil industries' health centers, 2018

AutorHossein Ghassemzadeh - Ahmadali Akbari Kamrani - Yadollah Abolfathi Momtaz - Mehdi Rassafiani - Fatemeh Nourhashemi - Robab Sahaf - Salman Naderian
CargoDepartment of Ageing, The University of Social Welfare and rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran - Professor of Department of Ageing, Research Center on Ageing, the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran The corresponding author - Associae Professor of Department of Ageing, Research Center on Ageing, the ...
Páginas482-495
Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito
Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
V. 8 - Nº 04 - Ano 2019 Special Edition
ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index
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OCCUPATIONAL RISK FACTORS FOR DEMENTIA IN A
SAMPLE OF OLDER ADULTS COVERED BY THE IRANIAN OIL
INDUSTRIES’ HEALTH CENTERS, 2018
Hossein Ghassemzadeh1
Ahmadali Akbari Kamrani2
Yadollah Abolfathi Momtaz3
Mehdi Rassafiani4
Fatemeh Nourhashemi5
Robab Sahaf6
Salman Naderian7
Abstract: Introduction: here is a new
case of dementia in the world every three
seconds. It kills more people in the US
than breast cancer and prostate cancer
combined, while it is the number one
killer in England and Wales. The current
cost of the disease is about a trillion US
dollars a year, and that is forecast to
double by 2030.Object: The aim of this
study was to determine the probable
1 Department of Ageing, The University of Social Welfare and rehabilitation Sciences,
Tehran, Iran
2 Professor of Department of Ageing, Research Center on Ageing, the University of Social
Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran The corresponding author
3 Associae Professor of Department of Ageing, Research Center on Ageing, the University
of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health
Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait
5 Professeur Fati Nourhashemi MD, PhD, Chef de pôle Médecine Gériatrie Gérontopôle
CHU Toulouse, France
6 Professor of Department of Ageing, Research Center on Ageing, the University of Social
Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran The corresponding author
7 Department of Ageing, The University of Social Welfare and rehabilitation Sciences,
Tehran, Iran
occupational and environmental risk
factors of dementia among the retirees of
Iranian oil industries. Methods: A case-
control study of 551 randomly selected
older adults, all aged 60 and above
including 180 demented and 371
nondemented retirees, pair matched for
education and gender, was conducted.
We evaluated the adjusted associations
between dementia risk and the probable

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