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Standard neurological examinations of older adults are good predictors of future brain health and quality of life and should become part of doctors' routine check-up of older adults, says an accompanying editorial.
"The Italian study confirms that looking at subtle neurological abnormalities in healthy older adults gives the doctor an insight into factors that contribute to impairment of functional cognition which lead to disability and poor quality of life," editorial co-author Dr. Malaz Boustani, an investigator at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, said in a prepared statement.
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"Until now, we haven't had proof of value of the standard neurological exam. We now know that the test is a good value for older adults and could even be used as a 'cheap biomarker' of future cognitive decline, because it appears to have predictive value similar to biomarkers," said Boustani, a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute Inc.
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