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ReviewNeurologic clinics2016

Alzheimer Disease and Its Growing Epidemic: Risk Factors, Biomarkers, and the Urgent Need for Therapeutics.

Richard A Hickman, Arline Faustin, Thomas Wisniewski

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Review in Neurologic clinics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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72citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Richard A HickmanDepartment of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, Alexandria ERSP, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Arline FaustinDepartment of Pathology, The Center for Cognitive Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, Alexandria ERSP, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Neurology, The Center for Cognitive Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, Alexandria ERSP, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Thomas WisniewskiDepartment of Pathology, The Center for Cognitive Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, Alexandria ERSP, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Neurology, The Center for Cognitive Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, Alexandria ERSP, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Psychiatry, The Center for Cognitive Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, Alexandria ERSP, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: Thomas.wisniewski@nyumc.org.

Funding

PSYCHOSOCIAL COREP30AG008051 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI SHAO, YONGZHAO · 1990 to 2019
$36.1M
Detection and Clearance of AD LesionsR01AG020245 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI WISNIEWSKI, THOMAS M · 2002 to 2016
$4.7M
Therapeutic Targeting of Abnormal Conformation in Neurodegenerative DiseaseR01NS073502 · NINDS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI WISNIEWSKI, THOMAS M · 2010 to 2019
$3.7M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG008051NIA NIH HHS R01 AG020245NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer disease (AD) represents one of the greatest medical challenges of this century; the condition is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide and no effective treatments have been developed for this terminal disease. Because the disease manifests at a late stage after a long period of clinically silent neurodegeneration, knowledge of the modifiable risk factors and the implementation of biomarkers is crucial in the primary prevention of the disease and presymptomatic detection of AD, respectively. This article discusses the growing epidemic of AD and antecedent risk factors in the disease process. Disease biomarkers are discussed, and the implications that this may have for the treatment of this currently incurable disease.

Indexed as

EpidemicsAlzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersHumansRisk FactorsBiomarkersAlzheimer diseaseBiomarkersEpidemiologyRisk factors

Identifiers

PMID27720002
PMCPMC5116320

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