Discrepancies in Assessing Intellectual Disability Levels in Adults with Down syndrome: Implications for Dementia Diagnosis

Abstract

Background: Cut‐offs derived from baseline cognitive assessments, stratified by intellectual disability (ID) level, have been proposed to diagnose symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Down syndrome (DS). However, discrepancies in ID classification risk misclassification when applying cut‐offs across sites.

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