Lewy body pathology and clinical diagnoses in the NACC database 

 
   Lead Investigator:    Walter Kukull
   Institution      :    NACC
   E-Mail           :    kukull@uw.edu
   Proposal ID      :    283


   Publications:


1  Kukull WA , Dickson DW, Montine TJ,  Ramos EM, Zhang A, Koepsell TD
   Lewy body (LB) pathology and clinical diagnoses in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) database
   Abstract  Alzheimers Dement,2:S430-431,2006,

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   Proposal Description:
   Background: LB pathology may co-occur with Alzheimer's disease (AD)  and other pathologies in clinically demeuted and non-demented individuals,  although its exact contributions to etiology and clinical expression  remain unclear. The NACC neuropathology data are gathered from ~30  Alzheimer's Disease Centers funded by the National Institute on  Objective(s): To describe the occurrence of LB pathology postmortem  study by clinical diagnoses for demented and non-demented NACC  base subjects who died between 1999 and 2005.