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ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease During SARS-COV-2 Pandemic in Peru.

Nilton Custodio, Sheila Castro-Suárez, Rosa Montesinos, Virgilio E Failoc-Rojas, Rossana Cruz Del Castillo, Eder Herrera-Perez

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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 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nilton CustodioServicio de Neurología, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias, Lima, Perú.ORCID 0000-0002-8025-3272
Sheila Castro-SuárezDepartamento de Investigación y docencia, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias, Lima, Perú.
Rosa MontesinosUnidad de diagnóstico de deterioro cognitivo y prevención de demencia, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias, Lima, Perú.
Virgilio E Failoc-RojasUnidad de diagnóstico de deterioro cognitivo y prevención de demencia, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias, Lima, Perú.ORCID 0000-0003-2992-9342
Rossana Cruz Del CastilloUnidad de diagnóstico de deterioro cognitivo y prevención de demencia, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias, Lima, Perú.
Eder Herrera-PerezUnidad de diagnóstico de deterioro cognitivo y prevención de demencia, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias, Lima, Perú.
Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva · ARUniversidad San Ignacio de Loyola · PEUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To evaluate neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their association with cognition and functionality during lockdown of the COVID-19's first wave. We included 91 patients and caregivers of people with AD from a memory clinic. The RUDAS, M@T, and CDR were administered to patients and NPI/ADCS-ADL to caregivers. Baseline and lockdown measurements scales were analyzed to compare the frequencies at baseline versus lockdown and conditional Odds Ratio (ORc) was calculated for the neuropsychiatric symptoms. During the pandemic, significant increase in the number of cases was observed in depression (23%), agitation (36.8%), aberrant motor activity (12%), sleep disorders (26.3%), and appetite change (12.1%). In worsening of pre-existing symptoms, the most frequent were delusions (75%), followed by sleep disorders (71.7%). Lockdown induces a rapid increase of neuropsychiatric symptoms affecting cognitive symptoms and functionality of Peruvian patients with AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCOVID-19Communicable Disease ControlHumansNeuropsychological TestsPandemicsPeruSARS-CoV-2Alzheimer’s diseasecaregiverCOVID-19dementiaquarantine

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PMID34416114
PMCPMC10581147
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