Incident Subjective Cognitive Decline Does Not Predict Mortality in the Elderly--Results from the Longitudinal German Study on Ageing, Cognition, and Dementia (AgeCoDe).

OBJECTIVE:Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) might represent the first symptomatic representation of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is associated with increased mortality. Only few studies, however, have analyzed the association of SCD and mortality, and if so, based on prevalent cases. Thus,...

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Main Authors: Susanne Roehr, Tobias Luck, Kathrin Heser, Angela Fuchs, Annette Ernst, Birgitt Wiese, Jochen Werle, Horst Bickel, Christian Brettschneider, Alexander Koppara, Michael Pentzek, Carolin Lange, Jana Prokein, Siegfried Weyerer, Edelgard Mösch, Hans-Helmut König, Wolfgang Maier, Martin Scherer, Frank Jessen, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, AgeCoDe Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4713115?pdf=render