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ReviewAlzheimer's research & therapy2014

Circulating biomarkers that predict incident dementia.

Galit Weinstein, Sudha Seshadri

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Review in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  6. The value of the GP's clinical judgement in predicting dementia: a multicentre prospective cohort study among patients in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019
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  7. Observational
  8. Atrial fibrillation, cognition and dementia: A review.Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology · 2017
    Review
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Galit WeinsteinDepartment of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, B602, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA ; Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mount Wayte Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702, USA.
Sudha SeshadriDepartment of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, B602, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA ; Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mount Wayte Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702, USA.

Funding

PRECURSORS OF STROKE INCIDENCE AND PROGNOSISR01NS017950 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Hugo Javier Aparicio, Jose Rafael Romero · 1985 to 2026
$22.9M
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DEMENTIA IN THE FRAMINGHAM STUDYR01AG008122 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI AU, RHODA, SESHADRI, SUDHA · 1989 to 2015
$14.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dementia is currently diagnosed based on clinical symptoms and signs, but significant brain damage has already occurred by the time a clinical diagnosis of dementia is made, and it is increasingly recognized that this may be too late for any effective intervention. It would therefore be of great public health and preventive value to define a variety of biomarkers that could permit early detection of persons at a higher risk for developing dementia, and specifically dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. Nevertheless, for the purpose of large-scale screening, circulating biomarkers are more appropriate because they are less invasive than lumbar puncture, less costly than brain amyloid imaging and can be easily assessed repeatedly in a primary care clinic setting. In this brief review we will review a number of candidate molecules implicated as possible predictors of dementia risk. These candidates include markers of vascular injury, metabolic and inflammatory states, amyloid and tau pathway markers, measures of neural degeneration and repair efforts, and other molecules that might contribute to anatomical and functional changes characteristic of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

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PMID25031629
PMCPMC4056619

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