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Motor, cognitive, and functional declines contribute to a single progressive factor in early HD
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Motor, cognitive, and functional declines contribute to a single progressive factor in early HD

Scott A Schobel, Giuseppe Palermo, Peggy Auinger, Jeffrey D Long, Shiyang Ma, Omar S Khwaja, Dylan Trundell, Merit Cudkowicz, Steven Hersch, Cristina Sampaio, …
Neurology, Vol.89(24), pp.2495-2502
12/12/2017
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004743
PMCID: PMC5729794
PMID: 29142089
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5729794View
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Abstract

To identify an improved measure of clinical progression in early Huntington disease (HD) using data from prospective observational cohort studies and placebo group data from randomized double-blind clinical trials.\nWe studied Unified Huntington Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) and non-UHDRS clinical measures and brain measures of progressive atrophy in 1,668 individuals with early HD followed up prospectively for up to 30 to 36 months of longitudinal clinical follow-up.\nThe results demonstrated that a composite measure of motor, cognitive, and global functional decline best characterized clinical progression and was most strongly associated with brain measures of progressive corticostriatal atrophy.\nUse of a composite motor, cognitive, and global functional clinical outcome measure in HD provides an improved measure of clinical progression more related to measures of progressive brain atrophy and provides an opportunity for enhanced clinical trial efficiency relative to currently used individual motor, cognitive, and functional outcome measures.
Prospective Studies Humans Middle Aged Huntington Disease - psychology Male Apathy Cognitive Dysfunction - psychology Ubiquinone - therapeutic use Adult Female Huntington Disease - drug therapy Motor Skills Huntington Disease - physiopathology Reproducibility of Results Signal-To-Noise Ratio Ubiquinone - analogs & derivatives Cognitive Dysfunction - physiopathology Vitamins - therapeutic use Disease Progression Emotions Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Neuropsychological Tests Facial Recognition Social Perception Stroop Test Longitudinal Studies

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