Internal medicine

Disease

Dementia

Cognitive decline

Clinical psychology

Relative risk

Meta-analysis

Psychiatry

Cognition

Psychology

Anxiety

Confidence interval

Risk factor

Medicine

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Because anxiety is postulated as a risk factor for dementia, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate whether anxiety predicts cognitive decline and/or dementia, taking the stage of cognitive decline as well as setting into account.

Anxiety as a Predictor for Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis