Mild Cognitive Impairment: Incidence and Risk factors – Results of the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+)

Objectives: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) constitutes a pre-stage of dementia in many cases. The aims of the present study were to estimate age- and gender-specific incidence of MCI and to identify risk factors for incident MCI in a population-based sample of cognitively healthy subjects aged 75 years and older. Methods: Data were derived from the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+), a population-based study of individuals aged 75 years and older. Incidence was calculated according to the 'person-years-at-risk' method. Cox proportional hazards models were used to identify risk factors for inciden…