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. 2018 Jul 18;75(10):1012–1021. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.1877

Table 2. Dementia Incidence and Association With Apathy.

Source Dementia Criteria Follow-up, Mean (SD), y Dementia Incidence Reported Association Apathy-Dementia
Overall, No. (%) Apathy Group, No. (%) No Apathy Group, No. (%) Calculated RR (95% CI) Crude (95% CI) Adjusted (95% CI) Adjustment
Bartolini et al,29 2005 AD NINCDS 1a 33/222 (14.9) 31/35 (88.6) 2/187 (1.1) 82.81 (20.76-330.37) NA OR: 3885 (154-97 902)b Stepwise, depression (BDI), cognitive (TMT)
Burke et al,30 2016 AD NINCDS 4.0 (0.6-8.8)c 565/1441 (39.2) 193/297 (65.0) 372/1144 (32.5) 2.00 (1.78-2.45) HR: 6.99 (5.51-8.88) HR: 9.51 (5.23-17.31) Age, sex, race, Hispanic, ApE4, family history
Chan et al,39 2011 Dementia DSM-IV, TR 2 51/321 (15.9) 3/45 (6.7) 48/276 (17.3) 0.38 (0.13-1.18) NA OR: 0.31 (0.09-1.13) Age, sex, education, baseline MMSE, depression, AbMB
Brodaty et al,37 2012 Dementia DSM-IV 2 14/630 (2.2) 0/14 (0.0) 14/616 (2.2) 1.42 (0.09-22.69) NA NA NA
Van der Linde et al,38 2013 Dementia DSM-III 2 128/879 (14.6) 33/159 (20.8) 95/720 (13.2) 1.57 (1.10-2.49) OR: 1.7 (1.1-2.7) OR: 1.2 (0.7-1.9)d; OR: 1.0 (0.6-1.8)e Age, sex, education, SOC, MMSE, SMC, OMC, ADL (BPS inst, emotional, stroke, MI, DM, SRH, smoking)e
Pink et al,35 2015 Dementia DSM-IV 3.0 (2.5-5.3)f 117/332 (35.2) 25/55 (44.5) 92/277 (33.2) 1.34 (0.98-1.91) NA HR: 1.62 (1.03-2.54) Age, sex, education, comorbidity
Teng et al,31 2007 AD NINCDS 2.0 (1.2) 12/51 (23.5) 6/13 (46.2) 6/38 (15.8) 2.92 (1.14-7.48) NA NA NA
Vicini Chilovi et al,32 2009 Dementia NINCDS,VaD, LBD 2.0 (0.2) 28/124 (22.6) 13/36 (36.1) 15/88 (17.0) 2.12 (1.12-3.99) NA OR: 7.07 (1.9-25) Age, depression (clinical diagnosis), ADL BI, Cognitive (ADAS)
Ramakers et al,24 2010 Dementiab NINCDS and DSM-IV 5.4 90/225 (34.2) 50/135 (37.0) 40/90 (44.4) 0.83 (0.61-1.15) OR: 0.58 (0.35-0.96)b OR: 0.67 (0.40-1.13)b Age, sex, education
Richard et al,15 2012 AD Clinical 2.7 (1.0) 166/397 (41.8) 82/178 (46.1) 84/219 (38.4) 1.20 (0.95-1.51) HR: 1.43 (0.86-2.38)b HR: 1.85 (1.09-3.15)b Age, sex, education;
cognitive (MMSE)
Somme et al,33 2013 Dementia DSM-IV 3.5 (2.9) 38/132 (28.0) 21/69 (30.4) 17/63 (27.0) 1.13 (0.66-1.94) NA HR: 2.20 (1.003-4.82) cognitive (MMSE)
Rosenberg et al,23 2013 Dementiab Clinical 1.2 (0.3) 527/1787 (29.5) NA NA NA NA HR: 1.13 (1.00-1.28) Age, sex, Hispanic race/ethnicity, cognitive (MMSE and CDR)
Sobów et al,34 2014 Dementia CDR = 1 2a 27/83 (32.5) 18/20 (90) 9/63 (14.3) 6.30 (3.38-11.74) NA OR: 70.7 (5.6-699) Backward, sex, BMI, dBMI
Robert et al,28 2008 AD NINCDS 3a 59/215 (27.4) 18/47 (38.3) 41/168 (24.4) 1.57 (1.00-2.46) NA HR: 2.48 (1.14-5.37) Age, sex, education, cognitive (FCSRT)
Palmer et al,36 2010 AD NINCDS 1.4 (8.4) 15/99 (15.2) 6/12 (50) 9/87 (10.3) 4.83 (2.09-11.18) HR: 4.6 (1.3-16.2)d HR: 6.9 (2.3-20.6)e Age, sex, education, depression (clinical diagnosis), cognitive (MMSE)e
Peters et al,23 2013 Dementiab NINCDS and DSM-IIIR 3.3 83/228 (36.4) 7/21 (33.3) 76/207 (36.7) 0.91 (0.48-1.71) NA HR: 0.93 (0.43-2.02) Age, education, ApE4, cognitive (3MS)

Abbreviations: 3MS, Modified Mini-Mental State Examination; AbMB, aberrant motor behavior; AD, Alzheimer Disease; ADAS, Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale; ADL BI, Activities of Daily Living, Barthel Index; ApE4, Apolipoprotein allele ε4; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory score; BL, baseline; BMI, body mass index; BPS, other behavioral and psychological symptoms; CDR, Clinical Dementia Rating; dBMI, change in BMI; DM, diabetes mellitus; FCSRT, Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test; HR, hazard ratio; LBD, Lewy Body Dementia Standard Criteria; MI, myocardial infarction; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; NINCDS, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Association; OMC, objective memory impairment; OR, odds ratio; RR, risk ratio; SMC, subjective memory concerns; SOC, social class; SRH, self rated health; TMT, Trail Making Test; VaD, Vascular Dementia Standard Criteria (NINDS-AIREN).

a

No mean follow-up but assessment for whole cohort at stated time.

b

Study assessed both AD and all-cause dementia.

c

Mean (minimum-maximum).

d

Most adjusted estimate not overadjusted.

e

Estimate considered overadjusted (<10 events per predictor).

f

Median (interquartile range).