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SUBMITTER: Burns JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5582024 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20170303 9
<h4>Introduction</h4>Disclosing amyloid status to cognitively normal individuals remains controversial given our lack of understanding the test's clinical significance and unknown psychological risk.<h4>Methods</h4>We assessed the effect of amyloid status disclosure on anxiety and depression before disclosure, at disclosure, and 6 weeks and 6 months postdisclosure and test-related distress after disclosure.<h4>Results</h4>Clinicians disclosed amyloid status to 97 cognitively normal older adults ...[more]