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Building vascular cognitive impairment cohort for study of Subcortical vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease dementia

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Mental and behavioural disorders
Registration Number
KCT0005428
Lead Sponsor
Gachon University Gil Medical Center
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
360
Inclusion Criteria

Cognitively Normal (CN)
•Normal cognition will be defined according to neuropsychological testing, which didn't fall within 1.5 SD, and Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) was 0 .

- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI):
•CDR was 0.5
•Subjects were not be clinically diagnosed with dementia according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition, Text-revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria.

- Dementia (AD and SVaD)
- Alzheimer's disease (AD)
•CDR = 0.5
•subjects were diagnosed with dementia according to DSM-IV-TR.
•subjects were diagnosed with probable AD or possible AD according to the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) criteria.

- Subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD)
•CDR = 0.5
•Subjects were diagnosed with vascular dementia according to DSM-IV-TR.
•In FLAIR images, whitematter hyperintensity was more than moderate according to the modified Fazeka’s scale.

Exclusion Criteria

- Subjects who do not meet the inclusion criteria.
- Subjects who have history of any significant neurological disease other than AD or VD , such as traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, motor neuron disease, or multiple sclerosis.
- Subjects who have history of brain tumor, normal presure hydrocephalus, encephalitis, or metabolic encephalopathy.
- Subjects who have history of a massive stroke in cerebrum, brain strem or cerebellum.
- Subjects who have history of psychiatric disorder.
- Subjects unable to undergo MRI or PET scanning.
- Pregnent or reast feeding women.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational Study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Analysis of Cognitive Function and Brain Structural Changes Between Groups During Follow-up Assessments(Linear mixed model), and Evaluation of the Imp act on Cognitive Impairment and Brain Atrophy(Cox proportional hazard mode l)
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Analysis of the Impact on Cognitive Function and Brain Structural Changes Bet ween Groups - Using Structural Equation Model and Relative Importance Meth od
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