Banks Sarah J, Shifflett Benjamin, Berg Jody-Lynn, Sundermann Erin, Peavy Guerry, Bondi Mark W, Edland Steven D
Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.
Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2019 Oct 3;5:508-514. doi: 10.1016/j.trci.2019.07.003. eCollection 2019.
The impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on cognitive decline differs by sex. Composite scores are useful as singular outcomes in clinical trials, yet to date these have not been developed to measure sex-specific change.
We derived optimal composites from component scales available in the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database among cognitively normal and mild cognitively impaired subjects who are cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β positive for early AD. Maximally sensitive composites were constructed separately for men and women using standard formulas. We compared the statistical power of the composites with the ADNI Prodromal Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite.
Among 9 cognitive measures and clinical dementia rating sum of boxes, the optimal sex-specific composites included 5 measures, including the clinical dementia rating and 4 distinct cognitive measures. The sex-specific composites consistently outperformed sex-agnostic composites and the ADNI Prodromal Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite.
Sex-specific composite scales may improve the power of longitudinal studies of early AD and clinical trials.
阿尔茨海默病(AD)对认知衰退的影响存在性别差异。综合评分在临床试验中作为单一结果很有用,但迄今为止尚未开发出用于衡量特定性别的变化的评分。
我们从阿尔茨海默病神经影像倡议(ADNI)数据库中可获得的分量表中,为早期AD脑脊液淀粉样蛋白-β呈阳性的认知正常和轻度认知障碍受试者得出最佳综合评分。使用标准公式分别为男性和女性构建了最大敏感性综合评分。我们将这些综合评分的统计功效与ADNI前驱性阿尔茨海默病认知综合评分进行了比较。
在9项认知测量和临床痴呆评定量表总和中,最佳性别特异性综合评分包括5项测量,包括临床痴呆评定量表和4项不同的认知测量。性别特异性综合评分始终优于无性别差异的综合评分和ADNI前驱性阿尔茨海默病认知综合评分。
性别特异性综合量表可能会提高早期AD纵向研究和临床试验的功效。