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ArticleAlzheimer's research & therapy2013

Should interventions to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease be tested in a population or as targeted treatment of highly selected study participants?

Pierre Jean Ousset, Julien Delrieu, Bruno Vellas

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Article in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pierre Jean OussetAlzheimer's Disease Clinical Research Centre, Gérontopôle, Toulouse University Hospital, 170 avenue de Casselardit, 31059, Toulouse cedex, France.
Julien DelrieuAlzheimer's Disease Clinical Research Centre, Gérontopôle, Toulouse University Hospital, 170 avenue de Casselardit, 31059, Toulouse cedex, France.
Bruno VellasAlzheimer's Disease Clinical Research Centre, Gérontopôle, Toulouse University Hospital, 170 avenue de Casselardit, 31059, Toulouse cedex, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Symptomatic treatments for Alzheimer's disease should retain a place in the advanced stages of disease since their actions on these symptoms, even if not modifying the course of disease, are critical for improving patients' comfort and reducing the burden felt by caregivers, especially those facing behavioral disorders. In mild or prodromal stages, the opportunity to act on specific pathophysiological targets should be considered. These targeted and tailored therapies have the greatest chance to be active in the early stages of disease, in the context of heterogeneous pathological mechanisms to be specified by reliable and accessible biomarkers. Finally, interventional approaches in large populations seem particularly appropriate for prevention strategies.

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PMID24325910
PMCPMC3979024

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