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ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2025

Changes in the prognosis of CADASIL over time: a 23-year study in 555 individuals.

Nontapat Sukhonpanich, Fatemeh Koohi, Amy A Jolly, Hugh S Markus

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  2. Analysis of Gut Microbiota and Their Metabolites in CADASIL Patients.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2025
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Nontapat SukhonpanichStroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Fatemeh KoohiStroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Amy A JollyStroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Hugh S MarkusStroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9794-5996

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backgroundCerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is the most common monogenic form of stroke and is associated with early-onset stroke and dementia. Whether its clinical phenotype is becoming milder with better risk factor treatments and other care improvements is unknown. In a large longitudinal CADASIL cohort, we determined whether the prognosis has changed over 23 years.

methodsPatients were identified from the Cambridge CADASIL register and the UK Familial stroke study. Change in age at stroke over the time of recruitment was determined using linear mixed-effects model, and the impact of genetic and vascular risk factors on stroke and dementia risk was further evaluated using Cox proportional hazard regression.

resultsA total of 555 patients with CADASIL were recruited between 2001 and 2023. The age of stroke onset significantly increased over time (p<0.001), with the mean age of stroke onset for patients recruited before 2016 (n=265) at 46.7±9.2 years and 51.6±9.5 years for those recruited since 2016 (n=290). Patients recruited since 2016 had lower risks of both stroke (HR 0.36, 95% CI 0.26 to 0.50, p<0.001) and dementia (HR 0.43, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.99, p=0.046) after adjusting for sex, hypertension history, smoking status, epidermal growth factor-like repeat position and calendar effect.

conclusionsThe clinical phenotype of CADASIL is improving. While this may be partly explained by reduced vascular risk factors such as smoking and the identification of milder cases, differences persisted after controlling for risk factors and mutation sites. These updated risk estimates should be used when counselling patients with CADASIL on prognosis.

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CADASILStrokeAdultAgedAge of OnsetDementiaFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisRisk FactorsUnited KingdomCADASILCEREBROVASCULAR DISEASEGENETICSSTROKE

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