Nearly everyone suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) doesn’t receive a proper diagnosis, which can increase their chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
Two recent studies found 92 percent of people experiencing MCI – a condition in which someone has mild problems with memory and decision-making – which can develop into dementia over time, are not being diagnosed at early stages, which could prevent people from accessing new treatments that may be able to delay cognitive decline if caught early enough.
In the first study, researchers used data from the Health and Retirement Study, a long-term survey of 20,000 people in the US, to build a model using a wide range of health and age factors that predicted the number of anticipated MCI diagnoses among people over 65 years old. The team determined 8million people would have the condition.
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Alexa Lardieri 