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. 2022 Jul 18;29(11):3395–3417. doi: 10.1111/ene.15481

TABLE 3.

Longitudinal studies

Citation Samples characteristics, mean ± SD Follow‐up period Subtyping method Cluster variables Imaging method Description of clusters (% prevalence) Neuroimaging results
N Age, years Education, years Global cognition Gender, % female Disease duration, years
Andersson et al. (2021) 349 PD 63.6 ± 7.5 15.5 ± 3.0 NA 35% 0.5 ± 1.1 Annually for 5 years Multivariate latent class linear mixed model

Composite scores used for each domain

Memory: HVLT (immediate & delayed)

Executive: SDMT, LNS, semantic fluency

Visuospatial: JLO

NA
  1. Class 1 (90%): gradual cognitive decline and worse performance on memory composite at baseline compared to controls

  2. Class 2 (10%): rapid cognitive decline and mild impairment on executive and memory composite at baseline; greater decline in memory and executive composites over time compared to Class 1

NA

Uribe et al. (2019), using

Uribe et al. (2016) clusters

88 PD 60.4 ± 9.3 10.6 ± 4.8 MMSE: 29.0 ± 1.0 42% 8.0 ± 5.6 3.8 ± 0.4 years Hierarchical clustering with Ward's method on cortical thickness data

Executive: phonemic and semantic fluency

Memory: RAVLT (total & recall)

Attention/working memory: digit span (forward & backward), Stroop (word, colour & word‐colour), SDMT, TMT (A, B, & A‐B)

Language: BNT

Visuospatial function: VFDT, JLO

3‐T structural MRI

See Uribe et al. (2016)

  1. Pattern 1: Parietotemporal atrophy and worse cognitive performance, particularly on semantic and episodic memory, and processing speed and attention/working memory
  2. Pattern 2: orbitofrontal cortical atrophy; decreases in processing speed, attention, and semantic fluency over time
  3. Pattern 3: patients without detectable cortical atrophy; decreases in processing speed, attention, and semantic fluency over time

High attrition rates (78%) for Pattern 1 prevented analysis on the neuroimaging or cognitive data

Pattern 2 (55% attrition): subcortical grey matter atrophy over time. Reductions in left parahippocampal gyrus and precuneus and right inferior parietal and temporal gyri, fusiform and lateral occipital gyri thickness over time. No difference in cortical thickness decline compared to controls

Pattern 3 (25% attrition): cortical grey matter atrophy over time. Cortical thinning of lateral and medial regions of temporal and parietal lobes, lateral occipital and extending to frontal regions such as the precentral and postcentral gyri and left pars opercularis. Increased cortical thinning in the left pars opercularis and precentral gyri over time compared to healthy controls

Abbreviations: BNT, Boston Naming Test; HVLT, Hopkin's Verbal Learning Test; JLO, Judgment of Line Orientation; LNS, Letter Number Sequencing; MMSE, Mini‐Mental State Examination; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; NA, not applicable; PD, Parkinson disease; RAVLT, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test; SDMT, Symbol Digit Modality Test; TMT, Trail Making Test; VFDT, Visual Form Discrimination Test.