Reported Time Between Onset and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: Correlation With Objective Parameters

Murielle Surquin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease

Treatments: Other: Medical file data extraction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03408041

CHUB-parameters Alzheimer

Details and patient eligibility

About

The early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is essential to enable patients to have access to the available treatments. However, there is a delay between the diagnosis and the onset of symptoms, which can range from 1 year to more than 5 years. In clinical practice, the hippocampal volume, measured by the Scheltens index, is currently used as a marker of the progression of the disease.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the patient's sex, age and ethnicity can influence the delay in the expression of cognitive troubles reported by the family at the first medical consultation, as well as to determine if there is a correlation between the delay reported by the family and the Scheltens index.

Enrollment: 129 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Alzheimer Disease patients admitted in the 'Memory Clinic' of the CHU Brugmann Hospital between 01-01-2010 and 31-01-2013. Diagnose according to the Dubois criteria

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

129 participants in 1 patient group

Alzheimer Disease

Description:

Alzheimer Disease patients admitted in the 'Memory Clinic' of the CHU Brugmann Hospital between 01-01-2010 and 31-01-2013. Diagnose according to the Dubois criteria

Treatment:

Other: Medical file data extraction