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Published online 20 August 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070820-2
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Early dementia causes weight loss
Women show signs of physical change a decade before mental decline.
Researchers have found a simple physical symptom that accompanies the early, subtle brain changes that lead to dementia. Women who will go on to develop dementia begin to lose weight at least ten years before diagnosis, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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