Re: Half of Alzheimer's cases misdiagnosed

[Guest guest]

Wow, that is mind-blowing. I hope doctors/researchers around the world sit up

and take notice of this study.

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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:15 PM

To: LBDcaregivers

Subject: Half of Alzheimer's cases misdiagnosed

Half of Alzheimer's cases misdiagnosed

Feb. 23, 2011

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White and his colleagues performed brain autopsies—the only surefire way of

diagnosing Alzheimer's—on more than 400 elderly Japanese-American men. Only

about half of those who had a diagnosis of Alzheimer's before death had the

brain plaques that signal the disease. The dementia in the other half appeared

to have been caused by abnormal protein deposits (known as Lewy bodies),

stroke-related tissue death (microinfarcts), cell damage, or some combination

thereof.

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