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Our questionnaire contained sociodemographic questions and the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale (ADKS), a well-established scale comprising 30 \u201ctrue or false\u201d questions about AD.  Results: 1,414 people (1,076 females), with a mean age of 42.3 years (SD \u00b1 14.1), and 87.4% having more than 11 years of schooling, answered the online questionnaire. The mean total score for the ADKS was 21.6 out of 30 points (SD \u00b1 3.73); however when we excluded health professionals (36.4% of the sample), it dropped to 20.5\/30 (SD \u00b1 3.51). The scores were positively influenced by educational level, professional skills (better for health professionals, mainly physicians) and by age (younger than 65 years). Being a caregiver or family member did not influence the knowledge about disease.  Discussion: Despite the high prevalence of AD, few studies have been conducted in Brazil regarding the population's knowledge about the disease. 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