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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Centre for Studies on the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease (StoP-AD), Montréal, QC, Canada.
Background: Amyloid-negative tau-positive PET (A-T+) participants have been reported in several studies. We assessed the prevalence and characteristics of A-T+ participants in a cohort of cognitively unimpaired individuals with a first-degree family history of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia.
Method: We studied 252 participants from the longitudinal PREVENT-AD cohort (mean cognitive follow-up = 3.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Neurology Department, Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Background: Identifying individuals with early Alzheimer's disease, i.e. mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) can facilitate the rapid initiation of pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies with the aim of achieving better clinical outcomes.
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December 2024
Departamento de Estudios en Educación, CUCSH, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, JA, Mexico.
Background: It is known that cardiometabolic diseases are related to Alzheimer´s Disease.
Method: We included 23 residents of Jalisco with at least one first-degree relative with ADAD (ADADG). We rated the participants using the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) as CDR = 0 (n = 20, 87%), CDR = 0.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Background: The BetterBrains Trial is a prospective behavior-modification blinded endpoint randomized controlled trial to delay cognitive decline in middle-aged adults (aged 40-70) with a family history of dementia. The primary outcome is absence of decline on at-least one out of four cognitive tests at 24-months. We present trial recruitment and current participant completion statistics and baseline demographic, modifiable dementia risk factor (MDRF) and cognitive characteristics of the randomized sample, blinded to intervention arm.
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December 2024
Amsterdam Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Background: Participant recruitment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) research and clinical trials is challenging. Online registries can be used to identify and pre-screen eligible participants. Additional APOE genotyping has the potential to better identify individuals at-risk for AD.
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