Sadiq, D;
Whitfield, T;
Lee, L;
Stevens, T;
Costafreda, S;
Walker, Z;
(2017)
Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease: A Comparison of the Cognitive and Clinical Profiles.
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
, 58
(2)
pp. 463-470.
10.3233/JAD-161089.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Dementia must be diagnosed accurately and early in the disease course to allow pathology-specific treatments to be effective. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), especially at the prodromal stage. OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical and neuropsychological profiles of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients who, at follow-up, progressed to AD (retrospectively AD-MCI) or DLB (retrospectively DLB-MCI) or remained MCI. METHODS: This longitudinal study used an unselected sample from a memory clinic database. A total of 1,848 new patients were seen at the memory clinic between 1994–2015. Of these, 560 patients (30%) had an initial diagnosis of MCI and were considered for the study. Inclusion criteria were patients who had a diagnosis of MCI at initial assessment and a minimum of 12 months’ follow-up. RESULTS: Of the 429 MCI patients with follow-up data, 164 (38%) remained MCI, 107 (25%) progressed to AD, and 21 (5%) progressed to DLB. The remainder progressed to alternative diagnoses. At baseline, DLB-MCI patients performed significantly worse on visuospatial function and letter fluency tests than both AD-MCI and stable-MCI groups, and better on episodic memory tests than the AD-MCI group. At baseline, DLB-MCI patients had a significantly higher mean UPDRS score and were more likely to have REM sleep behavior disorder and fluctuating cognition. CONCLUSION: DLB-MCI patients have a specific cognitive and neuropsychiatric profile which should alert clinicians to the possibility of prodromal DLB. This is relevant when considered in the context of early disease-specific therapy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease: A Comparison of the Cognitive and Clinical Profiles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3233/JAD-161089 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-161089 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, longitudinal studies, Mild Cognitive Impairment, neuropsychology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056300 |
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