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Neurology, Vol 45, Issue 11 1980-1984, Copyright © 1995 by American Academy of Neurology
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PM Doraiswamy, A Krishen, F Stallone, WL Martin, NL Potts, A Metz and J DeVeaugh- Geiss
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
The cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS-Cog) is used to monitor disease progression and treatment efficacy in clinical trials of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using data from a 12-week drug trial, we retrospectively studied the effect of education on ADAS-Cog performance in a group of 444 patients with AD. The effect of education was statistically significant on baseline ADAS- Cog total scores. This effect remained statistically significant after controlling for age, gender, and dementia severity. Education effects were also statistically significant at week 12 for ADAS-Cog total and 10 of 11 subitem scores in 138 AD patients in the placebo arm of the trial. Post hoc analysis showed that non-high school graduates performed worse than those with greater educational levels across a broad range of cognitive domains. Our results, in conjunction with reports linking lower educational level with a higher risk for AD, suggest that educational level of patients be given consideration in the design and interpretation of cognitive tests in AD drug trials.
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