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| Research article summary (published 30 May 2003): |
A three-factor model of cognition in Alzheimer disease.
Full Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To use principal factors analysis to model cognition in Alzheimer disease.
BACKGROUND:
Earlier studies have used factor analysis to examine the effects on Alzheimer disease cognition of either heterogeneity in premorbid cognition or heterogeneity in the disease process itself. In the current study, both sources of heterogeneity were incorporated within a single model.
METHODS:
Two hundred sixty-one patients with probable Alzheimer disease (92 White Non-Hispanic, 148 Hispanic, and 21 African-American) were tested with the Mini-Mental Status Examination, the Assessment of Cognitive Abilities in Dementia, and the Short Portable Mental Status Examination.
RESULTS:
Three factors were obtained:
one with loadings for memory and orientation, a second with loadings for language and praxis, and a third with loadings for executive functions. Factors 1 and 2 declined over 1.82 years (p = 0.0002, p = 0.0001); Factor 3 scores remained invariant over this period (p = 0.16). Furthermore, only Factor 3 scores correlated with either education (p = 0.0001) or ethnicity (p = 0.0001).
CONCLUSIONS:
A possible interpretation is that Factors 1 and 2 may reflect two components of the Alzheimer disease process while Factor 3 may provide an estimate of premorbid cognition. A potential practical application of the analysis is that it may provide a measure of Alzheimer disease decline that is free from correlation with education or ethnicity.
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Author information
Author/s: Sevush, Steven (S); Peruyera, Gloria (G); Bertran, Annette (A); Cisneros, Wendy (W);
Affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA. ssevsh(-atsign-)med.Miami.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology (Cogn Behav Neurol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Jun; vol 16 (issue 2) : pp 110-7
Dates: Created 2003/06/11; Completed 2003/09/02; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12799597, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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