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Mild cognitive impairment--an early stage of Alzheimer's disease?
Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1998
Almkvist O, Basun H, Bäckman L, Herlitz A, Lannfelt L, Small B, Viitanen M, Wahlund L O, Winblad B
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The hypothesis that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) represents an early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated by reviewing recent research from three sources: asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals carrying mutations that cause AD, hospital-samples of non-demented patients with MCI at the initial examination that are followed longitudinally, and community-based incident cases of AD. Studies with...
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