{"title":"Cognitive/Clinical Endpoints for Pre-Dementia AD Trials","authors":"Aisen Ps","doi":"10.14283/JPAD.2015.62","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With the aging of the world's population, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is rising. Yet it remains the only leading cause of death for which there is no disease-modifying treatment available, despite substantial academic and industry efforts. Disappointing clinical trials over the last several years have led to a growing consensus on the need to intervene early in the disease process, before clinical symptoms begin (1). Built on the hypothetical model of disease progression proposed by Jack et al (2, 3), which has since been supported by empirical data (4), the dominant paradigm today posits that the pathophysiologic processes underlying AD begin long before symptoms (5). However drug development at this stage is complicated by the difficulty of assessing a therapeutic benefit in subjects who are, by definition, clinically normal.","PeriodicalId":48606,"journal":{"name":"Jpad-Journal of Prevention of Alzheimers Disease","volume":"2 1","pages":"82-84"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5000,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jpad-Journal of Prevention of Alzheimers Disease","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14283/JPAD.2015.62","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Abstract
With the aging of the world's population, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is rising. Yet it remains the only leading cause of death for which there is no disease-modifying treatment available, despite substantial academic and industry efforts. Disappointing clinical trials over the last several years have led to a growing consensus on the need to intervene early in the disease process, before clinical symptoms begin (1). Built on the hypothetical model of disease progression proposed by Jack et al (2, 3), which has since been supported by empirical data (4), the dominant paradigm today posits that the pathophysiologic processes underlying AD begin long before symptoms (5). However drug development at this stage is complicated by the difficulty of assessing a therapeutic benefit in subjects who are, by definition, clinically normal.
期刊介绍:
The JPAD « Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’Disease » will publish reviews, original research articles and short reports to improve our knowledge in the field of Alzheimer prevention including : neurosciences, biomarkers, imaging, epidemiology, public health, physical cognitive exercise, nutrition, risk and protective factors, drug development, trials design, and heath economic outcomes.
JPAD will publish also the meeting abstracts from Clinical Trial on Alzheimer Disease (CTAD) and will be distributed both in paper and online version worldwide.