Chinese patients with Lewy body dementia had shorter survival and developed complications earlier than those with Alzheimer's disease.

CONCLUSION: LBD patients had shorter overall survival with earlier occurrence of pre-specified long-term events compared with AD patients. LBD also independently predicted pre-specified long-term events. PMID: 31489427 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31489427?dopt=Abstract

Source: Singapore Medical Journal - September 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shea YF, Lee SC, Shum ACK, Chiu PK, Chu LW, Chan HWF Tags: Singapore Med J Source Type: research