Declining financial skills are detectable in patients in the year before they develop Alzheimer’s, according to US researchers.
根據美國研究人員指出，阿茲海默症病患發病前幾年，會發現財務技能下滑。
Previous studies have shown that problems with daily activities often precede the onset of Alzheimer’s. The research from the University of Alabama in Birmingham is published in the journal, Neurology. The researchers studied 87 people with mild cognitive impairment（MCI）, 25 of whom developed Alzheimer-type dementia during the study period, and 62 who did not.
過去的研究顯示，阿茲海默症發病前，常會出現日常活動問題。這份來自伯明翰的阿拉巴馬大學的研究刊登在神經學期刊，研究人員以87名輕度認知能力受損（MCI）的人為對象，其中25人在研究期間罹患阿茲海默症類型的失智症，62名未出現失智症狀。
They compared them with 76 healthy people with no memory problems. They used a tool called the Financial Capacity Instrument（FCI）to measure their skills over a period of a year.
他們將這些患者與76名沒有記憶問題的健康人相比，他們使用一種稱為財務能力方法的工具（FCI），在一年期間內評量他們的技巧。
Tested at the start of the study and then a year later, the overall FCI scores for the 25 patients who progressed to Alzheimer’s disease, showed a 6% decline. Their skills in managing a cheque book dropped by 9%. The control group and the 62 people with MCI who did not progress to Alzheimer’s maintained the level of their FCI scores throughout the year.
在研究之初與一年之後測試，25名後來罹患阿茲海默症的病患，FCI整體分數下滑6%，處理支票簿的能力降低9%。對照組與62名未發展成阿茲海默症的輕度認知能力受損病患，FCI分數一整年內都維持水準。
新聞辭典
detectable：形容詞，可發覺的。例句：There has been no detectable change in the patient’s condition.（病患的狀況看不出有任何改變。）
precede：動詞，前導，在……之前。例句：It would be helpful if you were to precede the report with an introduction.（如果你的報告開頭能有個引言，會很有幫助。）
onset：名詞，開始。例句：The new treatment can delay the onset of the disease by several years.（這種新療法可將疾病的發病延緩數年。）
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