Women generally perform better on verbal memory tests, so when these they are used to diagnose cognitive impairment, women may be under-diagnosed, a study found.
Ryan W. MillerDoctors may be not be diagnosing women as early as men with brain problems associated with early signs of dementia because of how well women typically perform on simple memory tests, a study published Wednesday suggests.
"For men who are inaccurately diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, they can be exposed to unneeded medications along with undue stress for them and their families," she added.Long life:Mild cognitive impairment is"the stage between the expected cognitive decline of normal aging and the more serious decline of dementia," according to the Mayo Clinic. It is often associated with problems with memory, language, thinking and judgment.
"It makes sense in a lot of ways," Dr. Steve Arnold, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Translational Neurology Head at Massachusetts General Hospital Interdisciplinary Brain Center, said of the study."It's long recognized that women have a verbal advantage over men." They then compared those results with the average scores between the sexes and within the sexes from a separate group of people in the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.
Women who would not have been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment with the un-adjusted scores but were diagnosed with the adjusted scores did show more advanced brain changes linked to dementia. Maki, a professor of psychiatry, psychology and OB/GYN at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said to confirm the results, researchers are looking to analyze rates of conversion to Alzheimer’s disease.
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