Healthy elderly adults with poor cognitive performance
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1) Elderly adults who have participated in cohort studies, 2) Native speaker who is healthy, preclinical, and with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 3) Mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score 24 and over, 4) participants who sign the approved informed written consent form, 5) no limitations on age, sex, and medications.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1) MCI, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal lobe dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, Huntington's disease, normal-pressure hydrocephalus, brain tumors, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, multiple system atrophy, epilepsy, subdural hematoma, encephalitis / meningitis, multiple sclerosis, and brain injury with decline cognitive, 2) any local lesion such as cerebral infarction(s) detected by computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before enrollment that can greatly affect cognitive function, 3) history of major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and alcohol/drug abuse; and current serious or unstable disease, 4) inability to undergo cognitive tests, 5) patients deemed ineligible for enrollment by the lead principal investigator or co-researcher at each institution.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Survival analysis is performed to determine the consequence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia diagnoses. Other methods are added in order to search for an optimal statistical method. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To determine the reliability and validity of the system to assess the relationships among cognitive ability examination, MCI detection, lifestyle, and the types of clinic information in healthy elderly individuals. In addition, to use the results of the prospective study to determine the reliability and validity of the preclinical AD or MCI, which is obtained from the system, thereby, accelerating the process of MCI registry. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Section of Cohort Study for Longevity, Department of Preventive Gerontology