Lewy Bodies and Dimentia with Alzheimer's

Description

Dementia Study with Lewy Bodies

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 3 variables.

group

DLB/AD=DLB and Alzheimer's Disease

APC

Annualized Percentage Change from baseline volume of the brain

MMSE

Change in functional performance on the Mini Mental State Examination

Details

Brain MRIs were used to study the brains of patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies. These are the cases that were also diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. This is a subset of LewBody2Groups

Source

Z. Nedelksa et al. (2015), "Pattern of brain atrophy rates in autopsy-confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies," Neurobiology of Aging, 36: 452-461.