van Loenhoud, Anna C;
Groot, Colin;
Bocancea, Diana I;
Barkhof, Frederik;
Teunissen, Charlotte;
Scheltens, Philip;
van de Flier, Wiesje M;
(2022)
Association of Education and Intracranial Volume With Cognitive Trajectories and Mortality Rates Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum.
Neurology
, 98
(16)
e1679-e1691.
10.1212/WNL.0000000000200116.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate relationships of education and intracranial volume (factors related to cognitive versus brain reserve, respectively) with cognitive trajectories and mortality in individuals with biomarker-defined Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: We selected 1,298 amyloid-β-positive memory clinic patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD, n=142), mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n=274) and AD dementia (n=882) from the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort. All participants underwent baseline MRI and neuropsychological assessment, and 68% received cognitive follow-up (median=2.3 years, interquartile range=2.4). Mortality data were collected from the Central Public Administration. In the total sample and stratified by disease stage (i.e., SCD/MCI versus dementia), we examined education and intracranial volume as predictors of baseline and longitudinal cognitive performance on five cognitive domains [memory, attention, executive, language and visuospatial functions] (linear mixed models) and time-to-death (Cox proportional hazard models). Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, whole-brain gray matter atrophy and MRI field strength. RESULTS: Education and intracranial volume showed consistent positive associations with baseline cognition across disease stages. Longitudinally, we observed a relationship between higher education and faster cognitive decline among dementia patients on global cognition, memory, executive function and language (range β=-0.06-[-0.13], all p<0.05). Furthermore, in the total sample, both higher education and intracranial volume related to lower mortality risk (hazard ratio=0.84 and 0.82, respectively, p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: In this amyloid-β-positive memory clinic sample, both reserve factors were positively associated with baseline cognition, whereas only education related to longitudinal cognition (i.e., accelerated decline among higher-educated patients with dementia). Moreover, higher education and intracranial volume both moderately attenuated overall mortality risk in AD.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Association of Education and Intracranial Volume With Cognitive Trajectories and Mortality Rates Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1212/WNL.0000000000200116 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200116 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND), which permits downloading and sharing the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
| UCL classification: | 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 > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Brain Repair and Rehabilitation UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147063 |
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