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These days, patients increasingly express concern about their memory, perhaps because of intense publicity about Alzheimer disease. In this study, researchers asked 17,000 women (mean age, 74) about seven subjective memory complaints: (1) a general change in ability to remember things; (2) trouble remembering short lists; (3) trouble remembering things from one second to the next; (4) trouble remembering recent events; (5) difficulty understanding instructions; (6) trouble following a group conversation or a TV program's plot; and (7) trouble finding one's way around familiar streets. Responses were compared to performance on the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS), a validated tool similar to the Mini-Mental State Examination.
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