Sex differences in clinical cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies: a Chinese multicenter study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on sex ratios of Lewy body dementia is controversial, established in small samples, and rarely focused on prodromal stage. The objective is to investigate the clinical sex ratios (men/women) and their associations with clinical features among individuals with mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies (MCI-LB), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI), and Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) in China.

Methods

We conducted a multicenter cohort study, including 1038 individuals with probable MCI-LB, DLB, PD-MCI, or PDD diagnosis from 22 memory clinics in China from January 2018 to March 2022, and recorded their demographic and clinical data by reviewing medical records. Descriptive and regression analy

SUBMITTER: Gan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9526942 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature