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How many Parkinsons patients go on to develop Alzeimers Disease? (%)

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Cave Creek, AZ
November 20, 2022
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A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Two distinctly different diseases. Though some people with PD (some studies show as many as 80 percent) will go on to develop dementia, it's not Alzheimer's.

Here are links to a couple of sites that offer information about this:

https://memory.ucsf.edu/dementia/parkinsons/par....

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is...

Hope this helps answer your questions.

November 21, 2022
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

I don’t know of anyone.

November 20, 2022

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