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MEMENTO-VAScular COmponents of Dementia

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Related Disorders
Interventions
Other: in Memento-VASCOD
Registration Number
NCT02264899
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Bordeaux
Brief Summary

A Multicenter national longitudinal cohort study including at least 800 individuals recruited from French Research Memory Centers and followed up over 36 months and included in Memento.

Detailed Description

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder thought to be caused by the accumulation of the peptide amyloid beta and the hyperphosphorylated tau protein in the brain. There are increasing arguments in favor of an important role of vascular damages in the development and progression of AD.

The time course of these vascular alterations and how they relate to dementia and AD pathology remain unclear, as no protocol that allows the development of the diverse vascular pathology to be scored, and hence to be tracked with ageing, has so far been developed and widely validated. The aims of this project are to investigate, in a large clinical sample of patients presenting either isolated cognitive complaints or light to mild cognitive deficits, how vascular risk factors and vascular alterations (assessed at macro and micro levels) relate to cerebrovascular disease and cognitive decline.

The primary objective of this ancillary study is to investigate the prospective association between vascular risk factors, inflammation markers and vascular damages on cognitive decline and neurodegeneration progression over up to 4 years of follow-up in a sample of individuals presenting with a spectrum of cognitive profiles ranging from isolated cognitive complaints to cognitive deficits without dementia.

The secondary objectives are the following

* To investigate the role of vascular risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia) and vascular damages on progression to clinical dementia over up to 4-year follow-up.

* To study whether the interaction between changes in markers of macrovascular and microvascular structures on cognitive deficits progression.

* To study the association between in BP, hypertension, antihypertensive treatments and vascular damages, progression of cerebrovascular disease seen at MRI and cognitive decline and dementia risk

* To assess the temporality of vascular damages burden on neurodegeneration

* To assess the association between retinal vasculature defect and brain neurovascular damages

* To study the link between vascular damages and AD pathology (Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) and Positron emission tomography (TEP) amyloid imaging) biomarkers in the subsample of participants having all measures available

* To investigate how inflammatory markers mediate the association between vascular damages and neurodegeneration

* To assess whether vascular factors and neurodegenerative factors act independently or synergistically on the course of cognitive decline

* To assess simultaneously the impact of vascular damages on end organs (brain, eye, and kidney)

* To study the correlation between cerebral blood flow, measured by Arterial spin-Labeled (ASL) MRI and cognitive decline

* To study whether genetic polymorphisms revealed from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of AD of vascular factors could modulate the association between vascular damages and cognitive decline

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
332
Inclusion Criteria
  • Participants to MEMENTO-Vascod should be included in MEMENTO.
  • To have signed a specific MEMENTO-Vascod informed consent form, prior to any Vascod ancillary study related procedures
  • To be aged 50 years old and above
  • To have a Clinical Dementia Rating scale <0.5 and to be not demented;
Exclusion Criteria
  • Are under guardianship
  • Live in skilled nursing facility
  • Are Pregnant or breast feeding women
  • Meet brain MRI exclusion criteria (Same criteria as in Memento main protocol)

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Alzheimer's disease and related disordersin Memento-VASCOD-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in cognitive performances over36 months from baseline
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Progression to clinical dementia of Alzheimer's type according to standardized criteria36 months from baseline

standardized criteria : Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) classifications

Change in CSF and blood amyloid biomarkers of AD24 months from baseline
Change in brain atrophy and hippocampal volumes24 months from baseline
Progression of small vessels disease markers (white matter lesions, lacunar infarcts, microbleeds)24 months from baseline

Trial Locations

Locations (10)

CHU d'Amiens

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Amiens, France

CHU de Lille

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Lille, France

AP-HM

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Marseille, France

CHU de Montpellier

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Montpellier, France

CHU de Strasbourg

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Strasbourg, France

AP-HP - Hôpital BROCA

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Paris, France

AP-HP - Hôpital LARIBOISIERE

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Paris, France

CHU de Bordeaux - Pellegrin

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Bordeaux, France

CHU de Dijon

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Dijon, France

Hospices civils de Lyon

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Lyon, France

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