Abstract
The relationship between initial cognitive symptoms and subsequent rate of clinical decline is important in clinical care and the design of dementia clinical trials. This retrospective longitudinal, autopsy-confirmed, cohort study among 2426 participants in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center database included Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, n=1187; Lewy body pathology (LBP), n=331; and mixed pathology (AD-LBP), n=904. The predominant initial cognitive symptom was assessed clinically. Linearmixed modelsevaluated the longitudinal outcome of the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) score. Non-amnestic initial symptoms had a faster rate of decline than amnestic symptoms in all three groups. Language symptoms had a faster rate of decline in all three groups. Executive symptoms had a faster rate of decline than amnestic in AD and AD-LBP. There was a similar trend for visuospatial symptoms in AD-LBP. Initial cognitive symptoms, despite varied underlying pathology, are a predictor of longitudinal functional outcomes among dementias. Initial non-amnestic symptoms had a faster rate of longitudinal cognitive and functional decline on the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) scores than amnestic symptoms among Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body pathology, and mixed neuropathology. Given the relative size of CDR-SB changes in Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, clarifying the nature of initial symptoms could be an important variable in ensuring appropriately designed clinical trials.
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