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Validating the role of the Australian National University Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Index (ANU-ADRI) and a genetic risk score in progression to cognitive impairment in a population-based cohort of…

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Title
Validating the role of the Australian National University Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Index (ANU-ADRI) and a genetic risk score in progression to cognitive impairment in a population-based cohort of older adults followed for 12 years
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Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13195-017-0240-3
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Shea J. Andrews, Ranmalee Eramudugolla, Jorge I. Velez, Nicolas Cherbuin, Simon Easteal, Kaarin J. Anstey

Abstract

The number of people living with dementia is expected to exceed 130 million by 2050, which will have serious personal, social and economic implications. Employing successful intervention and treatment strategies focused on disease prevention is currently the only available approach that can have an impact on the projected rates of dementia, with risk assessment being a key component of population-based risk reduction for identification of at-risk individuals. We evaluated a risk index comprising lifestyle, medical and demographic factors (the Australian National University Alzheimer's Disease Risk Index [ANU-ADRI]), as well as a genetic risk score (GRS), for assessment of the risk of progression to mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The ANU-ADRI was computed for the baseline assessment of 2078 participants in the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life project. GRSs were constructed on the basis of 25 single-nucleotide polymorphisms previously associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Participants were assessed for clinically diagnosed MCI and dementia as well as psychometric test-based MCI (MCI-TB) at 12 years of follow-up. Multi-state models were used to estimate the odds of transitioning from cognitively normal (CN) to MCI, dementia and MCI-TB over 12 years according to baseline ANU-ADRI and GRS. A higher ANU-ADRI score was associated with increased risk of progressing from CN to both MCI and MCI-TB (HR 1.07 [95% CI 1.04-1.11]; 1.07 [1.04-1.09]). The GRS was associated with transitions from CN to dementia (HR 4.19 [95% CI 1.72-10.20), but not to MCI or MCI-TB (HR 1.05 [95% CI 0.86-1.29]; 1.03 [0.87-1.21]). Limitations of our study include that the ethnicity of participants in the PATH project is predominately Caucasian, potentially limiting the generalisability of the results of this study to people of other ethnicities. Biomarkers of AD were not available to define MCI attributable to AD. Not all the predictive variables for the ANU-ADRI were available in the PATH project. In the general population, the ANU-ADRI, comprising lifestyle, medical and demographic factors, is associated with the risk of progression from CN to MCI, whereas a GRS comprising the main AD risk genes was not associated with this risk. The ANU-ADRI may be used for population-level risk assessment and screening.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 103 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 12%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Other 8 8%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 35 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 16%
Psychology 15 14%
Neuroscience 9 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 39 38%
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