Predictive value of somatic and functional variables for cognitive deterioration for early-stage patients with Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence from a prospective registry on dementia (IMAGE)

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Predictive value of somatic and functional variables for cognitive deterioration for early-stage patients with Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence from a prospective registry on dementia

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Older age, female sex, irregular heart rhythms, and daily activity levels can help to predict how much Alzheimer’s Disease patients’ cognitive function will decline, and how much they will depend on their caregivers over the next two years.

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Tirol Kliniken/Gerhard Berger, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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