David Foxe, Muireann Irish, Sau Chi Cheung, Mirelle D'Mello, Yun Tae Hwang, James Muggleton, Nicholas J Cordato, Olivier Piguet
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Abstract
Introduction: This study investigated the changes in functional capacity with disease progression in a well-characterised cohort of patients diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) presentations.
Methods: We recruited 126 behavioural variant FTD (bvFTD), 40 progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), 64 semantic dementia (SD), 45 logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA), and 115 AD patients. Functional capacity was measured annually over ∼7 years using the Disability Assessment for Dementia.
Results: Linear mixed effects models revealed the bvFTD group demonstrated disproportionate functional impairment at baseline and over the study period. Functional capacity among the other syndromes showed a more uniform pattern of decline, with less severe functional impairment at baseline and ∼7%-10% mean annual decline. Baseline correlations indicated different mechanisms supporting basic and complex functional proficiency among the groups.
Discussion: Our findings demonstrate distinct functional profiles across dementia syndromes with disease progression. Identifying progression milestones across syndromes will improve clinical management.
Highlights: bvFTD shows severe functional impairment at baseline and over time.PNFA, SD, LPA, AD: less severe baseline functional impairment; more uniform decline.General cognition is related to IADLs, but not BADLs, in all groups.Behavioural disturbances relate to IADLs and BADLs in bvFTD and SD.Behavioural-ADL relations are more mixed in PNFA, LPA, and AD.
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Alzheimer''s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (DADM) is an open access, peer-reviewed, journal from the Alzheimer''s Association® that will publish new research that reports the discovery, development and validation of instruments, technologies, algorithms, and innovative processes. Papers will cover a range of topics interested in the early and accurate detection of individuals with memory complaints and/or among asymptomatic individuals at elevated risk for various forms of memory disorders. The expectation for published papers will be to translate fundamental knowledge about the neurobiology of the disease into practical reports that describe both the conceptual and methodological aspects of the submitted scientific inquiry. Published topics will explore the development of biomarkers, surrogate markers, and conceptual/methodological challenges. Publication priority will be given to papers that 1) describe putative surrogate markers that accurately track disease progression, 2) biomarkers that fulfill international regulatory requirements, 3) reports from large, well-characterized population-based cohorts that comprise the heterogeneity and diversity of asymptomatic individuals and 4) algorithmic development that considers multi-marker arrays (e.g., integrated-omics, genetics, biofluids, imaging, etc.) and advanced computational analytics and technologies.