Mild Cognitive Impairment Represents Early-Stage Alzheimer Diseaseстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered to be a transitional stage between aging and Alzheimer disease (AD).Objective: To determine whether MCI represents earlystage AD by examining its natural history and neuropathologic basis.Design: A prospective clinical and psychometric study of community-living elderly volunteers, both nondemented and minimally cognitively impaired, followed up for up to 9.5 years.Neuropathologic examinations were performed on participants who had undergone autopsy.Setting: An AD research center.Participants: All participants enrolled between July 1990 and June 1997 with Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scores of 0 (cognitively healthy; n = 177; mean age, 78.9 years) or 0.5 (equivalent to MCI; n=277; mean age, 76.9 years).Based on the degree of clinical confidence that MCI represented dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), 3 subgroups of individuals with CDR scores of 0.5 were identified: CDR 0.5/DAT, CDR 0.5/incipient DAT, and CDR 0.5/uncertain dementia.Main Outcome Measure: Progression to the stage of CDR 1, which characterizes mild definite DAT.Results: Survival analysis showed that 100% of CDR 0.5/ DAT participants progressed to greater dementia severity over a 9.5-year period.At 5 years, rates of progression to a score of CDR 1 (or greater) for DAT were 60.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 50.2%-70.8%)for the CDR 0.5/DAT group, 35.7% (95% CI, 21.0%-50.3%)for the CDR 0.5/incipient DAT group, 19.9% (95% CI, 8.0%-31.8%)for the CDR 0.5/uncertain dementia group, and 6.8% (95% CI, 2.2%-11.3%)for CDR 0/controls.Progression to greater dementia severity correlated with degree of cognitive impairment at baseline.Twenty-four of the 25 participants with scores of CDR 0.5 had a neuropathologic dementing disorder, which was AD in 21 (84%).Conclusions: Individuals currently characterized as having MCI progress steadily to greater stages of dementia severity at rates dependent on the level of cognitive impairment at entry and they almost always have the neuropathologic features of AD.We conclude that MCI generally represents early-stage AD.
Год издания: 2001
Авторы: Julie Morris, Martha Storandt, J. Philip Miller, Daniel W. McKeel, Joseph L. Price, Eugene H. Rubin, L Berg
Издательство: American Medical Association
Источник: Archives of Neurology
Ключевые слова: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
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Том: 58
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