24% Of People With Alzheimer’s Disease Misdiagnosed
About 76% of people diagnosed with cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) received a correct AD diagnosis, as verified by an autopsy, but about 24% were misdiagnosed. People with psychosis had a higher rate of false-negative diagnosis and a lower rate of false-positive diagnosis of AD compared with people without psychosis. People with psychosis were five times more likely to be misdiagnosed as having dementia with Lewy bodies rather than AD. People without psychosis were more likely to be falsely diagnosed with …
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