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Wenqi Lü1,2, Meiwei Zhang3, Weihua Yu4

  • 1Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

BMJ open
|December 9, 2023
PubMed
概括

一个新的ABC-Scale有效地将阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 与轻度认知障碍 (MCI) 区分开来,使用ADL,BPSD和认知测试. 这种快速查工具提高了早期发现阿尔茨海默氏症的诊断准确度.

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