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Subgroups of Alzheimer's disease associated with diabetes mellitus based on brain imaging.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2013
Fukazawa Raita, Hanyu Haruo, Sato Tomohiko, Shimizu Soichiro, Koyama Shunichi, Kanetaka Hidekazu, Sakurai Hirofumi, Iwamoto Toshihiko
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: We attempted to define possible subgroups of Alzheimer's disease (AD) associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) based on brain imaging. METHODS: We classified 175 patients with clinically diagnosed AD and type 2 DM into 4 subgroups on the basis of the presence or absence of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) on MRI (CVD or no CVD) and posterior cerebral hypoperfusion on SPECT (AD pattern or no AD...
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