Is greater impairment of ability in the divided attention task seen in Alzheimer 's disease patients with depression than in those without depression?
Our results suggest that depressive symptoms in AD patients increase the deficits of cognitive flexibility and divided attention. This is the first study to report a correlation between depressions, diagnosed based on the provisional criteria for depression in AD by Olin's group, and an impaired capacity for divided attention in AD patients.
Since pathological glucose tolerance is an important cardiovascular risk factor, oral glucose tolerance test should be considered as a routine test after a myocardial infarction in subjects without known DM.