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Disease-related determinants are associated with mortality in dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease

Overview of attention for article published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, February 2018
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Title
Disease-related determinants are associated with mortality in dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease
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Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13195-018-0348-0
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Hanneke F. M. Rhodius-Meester, Hilkka Liedes, Ted Koene, Afina W. Lemstra, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Frederik Barkhof, Philip Scheltens, Mark van Gils, Jyrki Lötjönen, Wiesje M. van der Flier

Abstract

Survival after dementia diagnosis varies considerably. Previous studies were focused mainly on factors related to demographics and comorbidity rather than on Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related determinants. We set out to answer the question whether markers with proven diagnostic value also have prognostic value. We aimed to identify disease-related determinants associated with mortality in patients with AD. We included 616 patients (50% female; age 67 ± 8 years; mean Mini Mental State Examination score 22 ± 3) with dementia due to AD from the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort. Information on mortality was obtained from the Dutch Municipal Register. We used age- and sex-adjusted Cox proportional hazards analysis to study associations of baseline demographics, comorbidity, neuropsychology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (medial temporal lobe, global cortical and parietal atrophy, and measures of small vessel disease), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) (β-amyloid 1-42, total tau, and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 [p-tau]) with mortality (outcome). In addition, we built a multivariate model using forward selection. After an average of 4.9 ± 2.0 years, 213 (35%) patients had died. Age- and sex-adjusted Cox models showed that older age (HR 1.29 [95% CI 1.12-1.48]), male sex (HR 1.60 [95% CI 1.22-2.11]), worse scores on cognitive functioning (HR 1.14 [95% CI 1.01-1.30] to 1.31 [95% CI 1.13-1.52]), and more global and hippocampal atrophy on MRI (HR 1.18 [95% CI 1.01-1.37] and HR 1.18 [95% CI 1.02-1.37]) were associated with increased risk of mortality. There were no associations with comorbidity, level of activities of daily living, apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 status, or duration of disease. Using forward selection, the multivariate model included a panel of age, sex, cognitive tests, atrophy of the medial temporal lobe, and CSF p-tau. In this relatively young sample of patients with AD, disease-related determinants were associated with an increased risk of mortality, whereas neither comorbidity nor APOE genotype had any prognostic value.

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Unknown 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 15%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Other 4 6%
Other 11 17%
Unknown 21 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 17%
Neuroscience 7 11%
Psychology 5 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 6%
Computer Science 3 5%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 26 39%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2018.
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#1,760,791
of 23,023,224 outputs
Outputs from Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
#320
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#40,959
of 331,055 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
#6
of 35 outputs
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