Long-term cognitive outcome of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: dual disease is worse

Table 3 Centre responsible for diagnosis of each of the diseases (Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies or both together)

	Alzheimer’s disease		Dementia with Lewy bodies		Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies
	P = 0.122^c
			P = 0.777^d
	P = 0.038^a ^, ^b
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Neurologist in liberal	30	3	3	2	0	0
Memory centre	300	30	26	20	4	14
Memory Resource and Research Centre	670	67	102	78	24	86
Total	1000	100	131	100	28	100

Fisher’s exact test
^aMeans statiscally significant difference in terms of type of centre responsible for the diagnosis of AD versus DLB
^bThe difference between Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies
^c(NS), it is the difference between Alzheimer's disease and (AD and DLB)
^d(NS), it is the difference between Dementia with Lewy bodies and (AD and DLB)

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