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Risk of left ventricular dysfunction in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease with APOE*4 allele

  • T. J.M. Van Der Cammen*
  • , C. J. Verschoor
  • , C. P.M. Van Loon
  • , F. Van Harskamp
  • , I. De Koning
  • , W. J. Schudel
  • , A. J.C. Slooter
  • , C. Van Broeckhoven
  • , C. M. Van Duijn
  • *Corresponding author voor dit werk

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OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the APOE genotype and cardiovascular disease in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. 

DESIGN: Case register study of 100 consecutive referrals to a Memory Clinic where type of dementia and cardiovascular comorbidity were diagnosed and APOE genotype was determined. 

SETTING: The Memory Clinic, University Hospital Rotterdam Dijkzigt. 

PARTICIPANTS: One hundred Memory Clinic patients, 59 to 91 years of age, who attended the Memory Clinic in the period between January 1994 and March 1996. 

MEASUREMENTS: Relative risk of cardiovascular morbidity in probable AD, based on clinical and ECG findings. 

RESULTS: The diagnosis of probable AD was more frequent in APOE*4 allele-carrying AD patients. When comparing homozygotes for APOE*4 with homozygotes for APOE*3, a nine-fold increase in prevalence of cardiac ischemia on ECG was found in the former. When grouping parameters of left ventricular dysfunction, the prevalence was 7.2 (95% confidence interval 1.2-42.6) times greater in probable Alzheimer patients with APOE4/4. 

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with probable AD, APOE*4 is associated with cardiac disease indicative of left ventricular dysfunction.

Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)962-967
Aantal pagina's6
TijdschriftJournal of the American Geriatrics Society
Volume46
Nummer van het tijdschrift8
DOI's
StatusPublished - aug.-1998
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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