RT Journal
A1 He J, Farias S, Martinez O, Reed B, Mungas D, DeCarli C
T1 DIfferences in brain volume, hippocampal volume, cerebrovascular risk factors, and apolipoprotein e4 among mild cognitive impairment subtypes
JF Archives of Neurology
JO Archives of Neurology
YR 2009
FD November 1
VO 66
IS 11
SP 1393
OP 1399
DO 10.1001/archneurol.2009.252
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archneurol.2009.252
AB Objectives 
    To evaluate demographics, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures, and vascular risk among mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subtypes.Design 
    Cross-sectional study.Setting 
    Both clinics and the community.Participants 
    A total of 153 subjects with MCI, 218 cognitively normal older individuals (controls), and 68 patients with Alzheimer disease.Main Outcome Measures 
    Classification of subjects with MCI according to current subtype diagnostic convention based on neuropsychological performance, estimates of vascular risk based on medical history, research MRI unless there was a specific contraindication, and apolipoprotein E genotype.Results 
    Of the 153 subjects with MCI, 65 were diagnosed with amnestic single-domain, 46 with amnestic multiple-domain, 27 with nonamnestic single-domain, and 15 with nonamnestic multiple-domain MCI. Analyses of control, MCI, and Alzheimer disease cases revealed significant differences in brain and hippocampal volumes between each group. Post hoc analyses of MRI measures among the MCI subtypes found that patients with amnestic single-domain MCI had significantly less brain atrophy and that hippocampal volume differed significantly from controls for the 2 amnestic forms of MCI. Apolipoprotein E genotype prevalence was significantly greater in the amnestic and nonamnestic subtypes of MCI. Conversely, the nonamnestic subtypes were more likely to have increased vascular risk and to be African American.Conclusions 
    Amnestic forms of MCI appear to have demographic, genetic, and MRI findings suggestive of Alzheimer disease pathology, whereas the nonamnestic forms of MCI have findings suggestive of vascular disease. Importantly, however, all subjects with MCI showed evidence of brain injury, and the biological differences among subtypes are relatively subtle beyond the memory vs nonmemory groupings.