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All mental and physical disorders may interfere with work or usual social activities, hence these losses are not diagnostic of dementia.
A high proportion of dementia patients are thought to have a vascular component to their dementia, and it has been assumed that dementia incidence could be reduced if vascular risk were better controlled.
This finding is in line with the literature, which suggests that individuals who have cognitive deficits are at greater risk for exhibiting behavioral problems in long-term and other non-acute settings [ 24 ] . Investigators have found lower MMSE scores at admission predictive of functional decline following acute medical illness and hospitalization [ 26 ] . Additionally, cognitive impairment is associated with the development of delirium during hospitalization, which in turn, can result in a variety of behavioral problems [ 27 ] . However, in these studies, patients usually had cognitive impairment indicative of dementia, whereas the current study suggests that among hospitalized elderly, a MMSE score of less than 27 places a patient at increased risk of behavioral problems.
These findings are supported by recent observations suggesting that HIV infected drug abusers have a more severe encephalitis at autopsy [ 7, 8, 9] and at least in some HIV infected drug abusers an accelerated form of HIV dementia may be observed [ 21].
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