Table 1. Patients with the third subtype of Alzheimer's disease described in the text, Alzheimer's-plus with low zinc.
Patient | Age at onset | Initial Symptoms | ApoE4? | Zinc | Other |
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1M | 65 | Visual agnosia | − (3/3) | 56 | MRI:general atrophy, mild FLAIR |
2M | 59 | Dyscalculia, aphasia | − (2/3) | 59 | MRI:general atrophy, mild FLAIR; FDG PET: frontal, temporal, parietal abnl. |
3F | 50 | Dyscalculia | − (3/3) | 56 | MRI:general atrophy, mild FLAIR; CSF + |
4F | 64 | Dyscalculia, prosopagnosia, word finding | Declined | 59 | Cu:Zn=3:1 |
5M | 55 | Dyscalculia | − (3/3) | ND | MRI:general atrophy, CSF + |
6F | 57 | Dyscalculia | + (3/4) | 70 | MRI:general atrophy, mild FLAIR; amyloid PET + |