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ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Neuropsychological markers of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease.

Alberto Marcos, Pedro Gil, Ana Barabash, Raquel Rodriguez, Marta Encinas, Cristina Fernández, José Antonio Cabranes

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Article in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cognitive markers of resilience to dementia in mild Neurocognitive Impairment: a meta- analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  4. Early neuropsychological detection of Alzheimer's disease.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alberto MarcosNeurology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. a_marcos_d@yahoo.es
Pedro Gil
Ana Barabash
Raquel Rodriguez
Marta Encinas
Cristina Fernández
José Antonio Cabranes
Hospital Clínico San Carlos · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To find early clinical markers that may predict a likely progression to Alzheimer's disease (AD), the authors performed neuropsychological tests on 82 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects. After 3 years, 38 patients developed AD while 44 retained the diagnosis of MCI. The cognitive differences between the groups were studied. Patients who developed AD showed significantly lower values than did MCI subjects in some neuropsychological scores (P = .02-.001), with sensitivities and specificities higher than 84% and 64%, respectively, for detecting early-onset AD, with a 7.9-fold increased risk of converting to AD (P < .001). Regarding the logistic regression model, the CAMCOG Memory and Perception cognitive screening items were the optimum independent tools to classify the patients who will progress to AD, showing a relative risk of progression of 10.5 (P = .002), 5.5 (P = .008), and 3.9 times (P = .05), respectively, with a sensibility of of 92.1% and a specificity 72.7%.

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Neuropsychological TestsAgedAlzheimer DiseaseCognition DisordersDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansLogistic ModelsLongitudinal StudiesMalePredictive Value of TestsProspective StudiesSensitivity and Specificity

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PMID16869340
PMCPMC10833278
OpenAlexW1979628093

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