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Longitudinal investigation for enhancing Down Syndrome Research (LIFE‐DSR) Study: Tau PET and CSF sub‐studies
2021-12-01
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Abstract Background The Down syndrome (DS) population is aging rapidly with a life expectancy of nearly 60 years of age compared to 25 years of age in 1980. There are approximately 210,000 people with DS in the USA and about 85,000 are >30 years of age.1 With longevity comes a high risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The lifetime risk of AD is estimated to be >90% ,2 and is the leading cause of death for adults with...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c3da96fc-8109-5cc9-aa53-5086a2de9698
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- 10.1002/alz.057426
