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Alzheimers: Add mixed dementias#1883

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  • Document adding 94% of mixed dementias to our Alzheimer's prevalence and incidence rates
  • Update model runs and V&V tables with proposed model 10.0 run
  • Add links to notebooks for models 8.7 and 8.2 that were recently added to vivarium_research_alzheimers

Note: I specified the changes to make in the Data sources and values table, but I did not edit the Vivarium Modeling Strategy section to explain these changes, in order to avoid a merge conflict with #1871. We need to remember to update the text for the modeling strategy, either in that PR or after it's merged.

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- Add mixed dementia cases that include AD instead of modeling AD
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@aflaxman I specified running only the Baseline scenario for this update. Does that seem reasonable? If you want to run more scenarios, I can update this.

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Let's run treatment scenario also, so we can see how this changes our headline results.

- Add mixed dementia cases that include AD instead of modeling AD
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@aflaxman I arbitrarily picked USA and China for the locations to run, but we can change this if we want

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The explanation for "94% of mixed dementias" is as follows: Based on the studies summarized on slides 4 and 5 of this presentation on mixed dementia, it looks like about 94% of mixed dementia cases include Alzheimer's. Specifically, Jaimie said to look at:

  • Figure 1 in Brenowitz et al. Mixed neuropathologies and estimated rates of clinical progression in a large autopsy sample. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 2017; 13: 654–62.
  • Table 2 in Kapasi A, DeCarli C, Schneider JA. Impact of multiple pathologies on the threshold for clinically overt dementia. Acta Neuropathol 2017; 134: 171–86.

Both studies show similar proportions of >90% AD for mixed dementias. We should note this when we update the Vivarium Modeling Strategy section (e.g. in #1871).

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ty!

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FYI I added a line item to the to do list to update the Vivarium Modeling Strategy section so we don't forget about it.

@NathanielBlairStahn NathanielBlairStahn merged commit 9835c3b into main Jan 21, 2026
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