Healthy older adults with subjective memory loss may be at increased risk for MCI and dementia

Subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), the earliest sign of cognitive decline, is marked by situations such as when a person recognizes they can't remember a name like they used to or where they recently placed important objects the way they used to. A new study finds that healthy older adults reporting SCI are 4.5 times more likely to progress to the more advanced memory-loss stages of mild cognitive impairment or dementia than those free of SCI.

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