Vascular and Alzheimer-type pathology in an autopsy study of African-Americans.

Pytel, P; Cochran, E J; Bonner, G; Nyenhuis, D L; Thomas, C; Gorelick, P B · Neurology · 2006

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Abstract

The authors studied 13 autopsy brains from a larger cohort of 270 African-Americans with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), or stroke without dementia. Two subjects exhibited changes of pure VaD, 5 had pure AD, and 6 showed a mixture of AD pathology and strokes. Overall, there was good agreement between the pathologic diagnoses and the clinical diagnoses.

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