Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: A Population-Based Approach to Identify Characteristics and Risk Factors

早发性阿尔茨海默氏病和相关痴呆症：基于人群的特征和危险因素识别方法

• 批准号: 10659338
• 负责人: Sanaz Sedaghat
• 金额: $ 76.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10659338
• 关键词: Adult; Affect; Age; Age Years; Age of Onset; Alcohol consumption; Alzheimer' s Disease; Alzheimer' s disease related dementia; Behavioral; Blood Pressure; Blood Vessels; Body mass index; Cardiovascular system; Characteristics; Clinical; Cognitive; Cohort Studies; Craniocerebral Trauma; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Disease; Disease Progression; Distress; Early Diagnosis; Early Onset Alzheimer Disease; Education; Eligibility Determination; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Event; Frontotemporal Dementia; General Population; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genetic Risk; Health behavior; Heart Diseases; High Prevalence; Hypertension; Incidence; Individual; Infrastructure; International; Intervention; Late Onset Alzheimer Disease; Lewy Body Dementia; Life Style; Light; Lipids; Measures; Medical; Mental Depression; Nature; Participant; Patients; Persons; Physical activity; Physiological; Population; Population Study; Predisposing Factor; Predisposition; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention strategy; Primary Prevention; Prospective Studies; Quality of life; Race; Renal function; Reporting; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Sample Size; Secondary Prevention; Smoking; Social isolation; Stroke; Symptoms; Syndrome; Testing; Time; Variant; Vascular Dementia; Vulnerable Populations; Woman; biobank; burden of illness; cardiovascular health; cardiovascular risk factor; cohort; data harmonization; dementia risk; demographics; early onset; genetic variant; high risk; human old age (65+); insight; lifestyle factors; middle age; multi-ethnic; non-genetic; polygenic risk score; population based; presenilin-1; presenilin-2; protective factors; rare variant; screening; sex; stroke incidence; tertiary prevention; trend; young adult

Summary Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) is an overwhelming medical condition at any age, but ADRD in younger adulthood is particularly devastating, affecting quality of life and independence of individuals in their prime years. Early onset ADRD (EOD) is defined as an ADRD diagnosis before age 65. While it is commonly perceived that EOD occurs primarily as a rare genetic syndrome, the known genetic variants account for less than 5% of cases. Despite the distressing course and unclear nature of the disease in the majority of cases, EOD is widely understudied. Current data on the prevalence and incidence of EOD seem to underestimate the magnitude of the problem and there is no information available regarding predisposing and/or protective factors for EOD. Using the infrastructure of an international Dementia Risk Pooling Project (DRPP), we propose a prospective study of EOD development which comprises individuals from five large multi-ethnic population-based cohort studies (ARIC, MESA, FHS, Whitehall II and, UK Biobank). This study provides the opportunity to (1) refine estimates of incident EOD, (2) investigate the role of cardiovascular, lifestyle and behavioral risk factors in the onset of EOD and (3) study whether a favorable midlife risk profile in the presence of genetic predisposition delays EOD age of onset. This evaluation will be the first study to pool multiple international population-based cohorts to prospectively study ADRD before the age of 65 in young and middle-aged adults. The current notion that EOD is merely driven by genetic syndromes has shadowed efforts to identify distinct predisposing and/or protective factors for EOD and targeting vulnerable populations for early detection and prevention. The findings will shed much needed light on the vulnerability and unique risk factors for EOD and may lead to development of more effective targets for prevention to delay onset and progression of disease. EOD is relatively rare and thus primordial and primary prevention may be more efficient than screening and secondary or tertiary prevention. Our data on EOD risk factors will strengthen targeted intervention strategies with focus on primordial and primary prevention.

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