Frank Jessen, Birgitt Wiese, Cadja Bachmann, Sandra Eifflaender-Gorfer, Franziska Haller, Heike Kölsch, Tobias Luck, Edelgard Mösch, Hendrik van den Bussche, Michael Wagner, Anja Wollny, Thomas Zimmermann, Michael Pentzek, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Heinz-Peter Romberg, Siegfried Weyerer, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Wolfgang Maier, Horst Bickel
CONTEXT: Subjective memory impairment (SMI) is receiving increasing attention as a pre-mild cognitive impairment (MCI) condition in the course of the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVES: To determine the risk for conversion to any dementia, dementia in AD, or vascular dementia by SMI, graded by the level of SMI-related worry and by the temporal association of SMI and subsequent MCI. DESIGN: Longitudinal cohort study with follow-up examinations at 1(1/2) and 3 years after baseline...
April 2010: Archives of General Psychiatry