Question 45 (part 2) · LEK · Alzheimer's disease
The most common cause of dementia in elderly patients is:
- A. Alzheimer’s disease.
- B. vascular dementia.
- C. dementia with Lewy bodies.
- D. frontotemporal dementia.
- E. alcohol-related dementia.
Hint
Think of the neurodegenerative disease responsible for well over half of all dementia cases in older adults.
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