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Effect of gender and apolipoprotein E genotype on response to anticholinesterase therapy in Alzheimer's disease.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry - 1 Sept 1998
MacGowan S H, Wilcock G K, Scott M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Anticholinesterase therapies offer modest benefit to subgroups of AD sufferers. However, there has previously been no way of predicting which patients will respond to any of the drugs. OBJECTIVE: To discover if gender and/or apolipoprotein E genotype can be used as predictors of response in the clinical setting. DESIGN: 107 patients from the Bristol Memory Disorders Clinic took part in a...
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