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A comparison between early presentation of dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease: evidence from routine primary care and UK Biobank data

Nedelec, Thomas; Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste; Darves-Bornoz, Aube; Couronne, Raphaël; Monnet, Fleur; Gantzer, Laurène; Lekens, Béranger; ... Corvol, Jean-Christophe; + view all (2023) A comparison between early presentation of dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease: evidence from routine primary care and UK Biobank data. Annals of Neurology 10.1002/ana.26670. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To simultaneously contrast prediagnostic clinical characteristics of individuals with a final diagnosis of dementia with Lewy Bodies, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease compared to controls without neurodegenerative disorders. METHODS: Using the longitudinal THIN database in the UK, we tested the association of each neurodegenerative disorder with a selected list of symptoms and broad families of treatments, and compared the associations between disorders to detect disease-specific effects. We replicated the main findings in the UK Biobank. RESULTS: We used data of 28,222 patients with PD, 20,214 with AD, 4,682 with DLB and 20,214 controls. All neurodegenerative disorders were significantly associated with the presence of multiple clinical characteristics before their diagnosis including sleep disorders, falls, psychiatric symptoms and autonomic dysfunctions. When comparing DLB patients with patients with PD and AD patients, falls, psychiatric symptoms and autonomic dysfunction were all more strongly associated with DLB in the five years preceding the first neurodegenerative diagnosis. The use of statins was lower in patients who developed PD and higher in patients who developed DLB compared to AD. In PD patients, the use of statins was associated with the development of dementia in the five years following PD diagnosis. INTERPRETATION: Prediagnostic presentations of falls, psychiatric symptoms and autonomic dysfunctions were more strongly associated with DLB than PD and AD. This study also suggests that whilst several associations with medications are similar in neurodegenerative disorders, statin usage is negatively associated with Parkinson's Disease but positively with DLB and AD as well as development of dementia in PD.

Type: Article
Title: A comparison between early presentation of dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease: evidence from routine primary care and UK Biobank data
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/ana.26670
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26670
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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 > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169892
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