Identifying Patients at High and Low Risk of Cognitive Decline Using Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test among Middle-Aged Memory Clinic Outpatients

Abstract

The application of cutoff levels in RAVLT at baseline showed that patients with severely impaired RAVLT performance were at a high risk of cognitive decline and progression to dementia, while patients with normal RAVLT results did not show cognitive decline during 3 years. Furthermore, the initial degree of memory impairment was decisive in the cognitive prognosis 3 years later.