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Factors affecting survival of patients with neurodegenerative disease.
Neuroepidemiology - 1 Jan 2010
Steenland Kyle, MacNeil Jessica, Seals Ryan, Levey Allan
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BACKGROUND: Survival varies widely among different neurodegenerative diseases. Data on the role of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and apolipoprotein E (APOE) in survival are sparse except for Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: We studied mortality of 3,581 patients in an academic clinic from 1993 to 2004. Average follow-up was 4.1 years. We studied patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (n =...
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