No difference in dementia prediction between apolipoprotein E4 and the ischemic score.

We examined whether the Hachinski Ischemic Scale (HIS) can predict dementia in elderly. METHODS: We leveraged data of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. First, we examined the association of HIS with incident dementia. Next, we compared HIS to apolipoprotein E (APOE ɛ4) in prediction of dementia. We trained the HIS and APOE ɛ4 models in the training dataset and used the trained models for dementia prediction in the validation dataset. RESULTS: A higher HIS level was associated with a higher odds of dementia (odds ratio = 1.64, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.41 to 1.90, P < .001). Dementia discrimination of the HIS model was not different from the APOE ɛ4 model (area under the curve difference = 0.002, 95% CI: -0.024 to 0.029, P = .857). The calibration of the HIS model was 13.7 (P = .091) and of the APOE ɛ4 model was 13.3 (P = .100). DISCUSSION: HIS may be used as a simple, inexpensive test to identify older adults at risk of developing dementia. PMID: 32729966 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alzheimers Dement Source Type: research