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Table 1 Case and Control Diagnoses

From: A case-control study of occupational magnetic field exposure and Alzheimer's disease: results from the California Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Centers

Diagnoses

Number of Patients

Case subjects (n = 1763)

 

   Probable or definite AD

1763

Control subjects (n = 543)

 

   1. Alcohol abuse or dependence/current alcohol use current alcohol use

15

   2. CNS infection

2

   3. Cognitive impairment/dementia due to age-associated memory impairment

91

   4. Dementia, specific diagnosis deferred

112

   5. Frontal lobe degeneration

7

   6. Lewy body disease

31

   7. Medication (toxic effect or metabolic derangement/metabolic disorder/toxin)

15

   8. No disease

20

   9. Normal pressure hydrocephalus

3

   10. Not demented

3

   11. Parkinson's disease

32

   12. Pick's disease/other frontal temporal syndrome

10

   13. Progressive supranuclear palsy

5

   14. Pseudodementia

119

   15. Other definitive diagnoses (non-AD, non-VaD, not mixed AD/VaD)

78