1 Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
2 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2018 Nov;33(7):450-457. doi: 10.1177/1533317518783278. Epub 2018 Jul 3.
The aim of this study was to describe sex differences in neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs) in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Baseline scores on the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory, Neurobehavioral Rating Scale-Agitation subscale, and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory from patients with AD enrolled in a multicenter trial of citalopram for the treatment of agitation were analyzed. We found not only that patients with AD having agitation were likely to exhibit many other NPSs but also that the women in this study were more likely to exhibit a broader range of NPS than were the men. These results suggest greater heterogeneity in the clinical presentation of women compared to men, and thus in the potential targets for treatment in these patients. Further characterization of sex differences in NPS can inform future efforts aimed at establishing subtypes of patients for whom various treatment approaches will be most appropriate.
本研究旨在描述阿尔茨海默病(AD)患者的神经精神症状(NPS)的性别差异。对接受西酞普兰治疗激越的多中心试验中 AD 患者的基线 Cohen-Mansfield 激越量表、神经行为评定量表-激越分量表和神经精神问卷评分进行了分析。我们不仅发现有激越的 AD 患者可能表现出许多其他 NPS,而且研究中的女性比男性更可能表现出更广泛的 NPS。这些结果表明,女性的临床表现比男性更为复杂,因此这些患者的治疗靶点也可能更为复杂。进一步描述 NPS 的性别差异可以为未来确定最适合各种治疗方法的患者亚组的努力提供信息。