Background Although adoption of new clinical criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
leads to an increase in the proportion of patients diagnosed with probable DLB, the
sensitivity of clinical diagnostic criteria of DLB is low, and there are no generally accepted
clinical or imaging biomarkers to distinguish DLB from other types of dementia. In this study,
we investigated whether neurocirculatory abnormalities and cardiac sympathetic
denervation differed in controls and patients with subjective memory impairment (SMI), mild …