Dolatabadi, Elham Van Ooteghem, Karen Taati, Babak Iaboni, Andrea
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background: Impairments of gait and balance often progress through the course of dementia, and are associated with increased risk of falls. Summary: This systematic review provides a critical analysis of the evidence linking quantitative measures of gait and balance to fall risk in older adults with dementia. Various instrumented measures of gait a...
Cheng, Ying-Chih Huang, Yu-Chen Liu, Hsing-Cheng
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background: The apolipoprotein E ɛ4 (APOE ɛ4) genotype is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, its effect on an individual’s response to treatment is less well understood. Many studies have reported that the presence or absence of APOE ɛ4 may have influence on the therapeutic response for acetylcholinesterase inhibit...
Rakusa, Martin Jensterle, Joze Mlakar, Janez
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background/Aim: The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a valid alternative screening tool to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and, crucially, it may be completed faster. The aim of our study was to standardize and simplify the CDT scoring system for screening in three common conditions: mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and...
Okamura, Hitoshi Otani, Michiaki Shimoyama, Naonori Fujii, Takayuki
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background/Aims: We investigated the efficacy of a combined exercise and cognitive training system that we devised for improvement of attention and concentration, cognition, and activities of daily living in older adults with dementia. Methods: A total of 100 dementia patients were randomly assigned to an intervention group or a control group. The ...
Pinto, Tiago C.C. Machado, Leonardo Bulgacov, Tatiana M. Rodrigues-Júnior, Antônio L. Costa, Maria Lúcia G. Ximenes, Rosana C.C. Sougey, Everton B.
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Aims: To provide normative data for the Brazilian version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-BR) and to measure the effect of sociodemographic variables on the cognitive performance of cognitively healthy elderly people. Methods: A sample of 110 cognitively healthy individuals, aged over 65 years, with at least 4 years of schooling were rec...
Williamson, John C. Larner, Andrew J.
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background/Aims: The Mini-Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (MACE) is a relatively new short cognitive screening instrument for the detection of patients with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Few studies of the MACE have been reported hitherto. The aim of this study was to undertake a pragmatic diagnostic test accuracy study of MACE ...
Vergouw, Leonie J.M. Salomé, Mariet Kerklaan, Anke G. Kies, Christiaan Roks, Gerwin van den Berg, Esther de Jong, Frank Jan
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Aims: To determine whether the pentagon copying test (PCT) and the clock drawing test (CDT) are associated with nursing home admission or survival in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Methods: The PCT and/or the CDT were retrospectively collected from 103 clinically diagnosed probable DLB patients at a university medical center and general hospital....
Fieo, Robert Stern, Yaakov
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background/Aims: Dementia exhibits an insidious onset consisting of cognitive, behavioral, and functional impairment. We explored a functional continuum that extends assessment beyond the clinical instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) range and into advanced activities of daily living. Methods: We examined the predictive power (Cox regress...
Xue, Yu-Hao Peng, Yu-Shin Ting, Hsin-Fu Peijer Hsieh, Jason Huang, Yu-Kai Wang, Yu-Hsun Chiou, Jeng-Yuan Wei, James Cheng-Chung
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Introduction: This population-based cohort study investigates the association between osteoarthritis (OA) and dementia as well as the connection between NSAIDs and dementia. Methods: We chose the samples from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database and then divided them into two groups, which were then matched 1: 1 by propensity score. Th...
Byun, Seonjeong Han, Ji Won Kim, Tae Hui Kim, Kayoung Kim, Tae Hyun Park, Jae Young Suh, Seung Wan Seo, Ji Young So, Yoonseop Lee, Kyoung Hwan
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of gait speed and gait variability, an index of how much gait parameters, such as step time, fluctuate step-to-step, with risk of cognitive decline in cognitively normal elderly individuals. While high gait variability is emerging as an early indicator of dementing illnesses, ther...
