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ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 454-467Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.12.003
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Preclinical Alzheimer's disease; Systematic review; Cohort; Clinical trial; Longitudinal; Cross-sectional; Biomarker; Cognition; Familial Alzheimer's disease; Neuropathology
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Preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a relatively recent concept describing an entity characterized by the presence of a pathophysiological biomarker signature characteristic for AD in the absence of specific clinical symptoms. There is rising interest in the scientific community to define such an early target population mainly because of failures of all recent clinical trials despite evidence of biological effects on brain amyloidosis for some compounds. A conceptual framework has recently been proposed for this preclinical phase of AD. However, few data exist on this silent stage of AD. We performed a systematic review to investigate how the concept is defined across studies. The review highlights the substantial heterogeneity concerning the three main determinants of preclinical AD: normal cognition, cognitive decline, and AD pathophysiological signature. We emphasize the need for a harmonized nomenclature of the preclinical AD concept and standardized population-based and case-control studies using unified operationalized criteria. (C) 2017 the Alzheimer's Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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