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SynthesisAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2016

METACOHORTS for the study of vascular disease and its contribution to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration: An initiative of the Joint Programme for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

METACOHORTS Consortium. Electronic address: joanna.wardlaw@ed.ac.uk, METACOHORTS Consortium

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Cognitive impairment in sporadic cerebral small vessel disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2021
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  3. UK consensus on pre-clinical vascular cognitive impairment functional outcomes assessment: Questionnaire and workshop proceedings.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2020
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  9. Imaging brain fluid dynamics and waste clearance involving perivascular spaces in cerebral small vessel disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  19. Diagnosing vascular cognitive impairment: Current challenges and future perspectives.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2023
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

METACOHORTS Consortium. Electronic address: joanna.wardlaw@ed.ac.uk
METACOHORTS Consortium
Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences · FR

Funding

UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Core CenterP30AG010129 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI DECARLI, CHARLES · 1991 to 2020
$28.3M
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
CIHRMedical Research Council G0500247Medical Research Council G0701120Medical Research Council G1001245Medical Research Council G1001354Medical Research Council G1002605Medical Research Council MR/K026992/1Medical Research Council MR/M013111/1NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010129NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS017950
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dementia is a global problem and major target for health care providers. Although up to 45% of cases are primarily or partly due to cerebrovascular disease, little is known of these mechanisms or treatments because most dementia research still focuses on pure Alzheimer's disease. An improved understanding of the vascular contributions to neurodegeneration and dementia, particularly by small vessel disease, is hampered by imprecise data, including the incidence and prevalence of symptomatic and clinically "silent" cerebrovascular disease, long-term outcomes (cognitive, stroke, or functional), and risk factors. New large collaborative studies with long follow-up are expensive and time consuming, yet substantial data to advance the field are available. In an initiative funded by the Joint Programme for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, 55 international experts surveyed and assessed available data, starting with European cohorts, to promote data sharing to advance understanding of how vascular disease affects brain structure and function, optimize methods for cerebrovascular disease in neurodegeneration research, and focus future research on gaps in knowledge. Here, we summarize the results and recommendations from this initiative. We identified data from over 90 studies, including over 660,000 participants, many being additional to neurodegeneration data initiatives. The enthusiastic response means that cohorts from North America, Australasia, and the Asia Pacific Region are included, creating a truly global, collaborative, data sharing platform, linked to major national dementia initiatives. Furthermore, the revised World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases version 11 should facilitate recognition of vascular-related brain damage by creating one category for all cerebrovascular disease presentations and thus accelerate identification of targets for dementia prevention.

Indexed as

Cognitive DysfunctionNeurodegenerative DiseasesAgedCerebrovascular DisordersCohort StudiesDementia, VascularFemaleHumansIncidenceMalePrevalenceRisk FactorsSurveys and QuestionnairesCerebrovascular diseaseDementiaNeurodegeneration, Cohorts, SurveySmall vessel disease

Identifiers

PMID27490018
PMCPMC5399602
OpenAlexW2516094476

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