Mild Cognitive Impairment Represents Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease
Archives of NeurologyPublished 1 March 2001
Julie Morris, Martha Storandt, J. Philip Miller, Daniel W. McKeel, Joseph L. Price, Eugene H. Rubin
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It is concluded that MCI generally represents early-stage AD and individuals currently characterized as having MCI progress steadily to greater stages of dementia severity at rates dependent on the level of cognitive impairment at entry and they almost always have the neuropathologic features of AD.
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Individuals currently characterized as having MCI progress steadily to greater stages of dementia severity at rates dependent on the level of cognitive impairment at entry and they almost always have the neuropathologic features of AD. We conclude that MCI generally represents early-stage AD.
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