Sentences with phrase «treating mild cognitive impairment»
Researchers have long been aware of an apparent link between blood - vessel health and Alzheimer's, but this study is «the first one that shows that treating mild cognitive impairment can have results,» says Anton Porsteinsson, MD, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, in New York.
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After administering PET scans to 4000 people previously diagnosed with either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and treated for Alzheimer's to test for the presence of amyloid plaque, only 53.3 % of patients with MCI and 70.5 % with dementia tested positive.