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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 123, Issue 3, Pages 267-274Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.08.015
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Alzheimer's disease; Hypercholesterolemia; Lipoprotein receptors; Mild cognitive impairment
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- National Institute on Aging, (US) [AG-022103, AG-10483]
- Alzheimer's Association Zenith
- Spanish Ministry of Health [RT/C03-01, RT/G03-181]
- Familial Hypercolesterolemia Foundation of Spain
- Fundacio Privada Catalana de Nutricio i Lipids, Barcelona, Spain
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OBJECTIVE: Hypercholesterolemia is in early risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors might be involved in this disorder. Our objective was to determine the risk of mild cognitive impairment in a population of patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, a condition involving LDL receptor dysfunction and lifelong hypercholesterolemia. METHODS: By using a cohort Study design, patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (N = 47) meeting inclusion criteria and comparison patients without familial hypercholesterolemia (N = 70) Were consecutively selected from academic specialty and primary care clinics, respectively. All patients were older than 50 years. Those with disorders that Could affect cognition, including history of stroke or transient ischemic attacks, were excluded from both groups. Thirteen standardized neuropsychologic tests were performed in all subjects. Mutational analysis was performed in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, and brain imaging was obtained in those with familial hypercholesterolemia and mild cognitive impairment. RESULTS: Patients with familial hypercholesterolemia showed a high incidence of mild cognitive impairment compared with those Without familial hypercholesterolemia (21.3% vs 2.9%; P = .00). This diagnosis was unrelated to structural pathology or white matter disease. There were significant differences, independent of apolipoprotein E4 or E2 status, between those with familial hypercholesterolemia and those with no familial hypercholesterolemia in several cognitive measures, all in the direction of worse performance for those with familial hypercholesterolemia. CONCLUSION: Because prior studies have shown that older patients with sporadic hypercholesterolemia do not show a higher incidence of mild cognitive impairment, the findings presented Suggest that early exposure to elevated cholesterol or LDL receptor dysfunction may be risk factors for mild cognitive impairment. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Inc. . The American Journal of Medicine (2010) 123, 267-274
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