PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Neurobiology of Aging. This paper has been peerreviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.
Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Enache, D., Solomon, A., Cavallin, L., Kåreholt, I., Kramberger, M G. et al. (2016) CAIDE Dementia Risk Score and biomarkers of neurodegeneration in memory clinic patients without dementia.
Neurobiology of Aging
AbstractThe aim of this study was to explore cross-sectional associations between CAIDE Dementia Risk Score and dementia-related CSF and neuroimaging biomarkers in 724 memory clinic patients without dementia from the Memory Clinic at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden. We additionally evaluated the score's capacity to predict dementia. Two risk score versions were calculated: one including age, gender, obesity, hyperlipidaemia, and hypertension; and one additionally including APOE ε4 carrier status. CSF was analysed for amyloid β (Aβ), total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau). Visual assessments of medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA), global cortical atrophy-frontal subscale (GCA-F) and Fazekas scale for white matter changes (WMC) were performed. Higher CAIDE Dementia Risk Score (version without APOE) was significantly associated with higher t-tau, more severe MTA, WMC and GCA-F. Higher CAIDE Dementia Risk Score (version with APOE) was associated with reduced Aβ, more severe MTA and WMC. CAIDE Dementia Risk Score version with APOE seemed to predict dementia better in this memory clinic population with short follow-up than the version without APOE.3