| Title: | Prediagnostic Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - Insights from the UK Biobank |
| Journal: | Parkinsonism & Related Disorders |
| Published: | 11 Jan 2022 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35032742/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2022.01.004 |
| URL: | http://www.prd-journal.com/article/S1353802022000049/pdf |
Publication 13842
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Prediagnostic features of Parkinson's Disease are well described but prediagnostic Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) is less understood. The diagnosis of PSP is delayed by an average of three years after symptom onset. Understanding the changes that occur in the prediagnostic period will aid earlier diagnosis, clarify the natural history, and may aid the design of early disease-modifying therapy trials. We set out to identify motor and cognitive markers of prediagnostic PSP, with Parkinson's disease as a comparator condition, in a large prospective cohort.</p>
METHODS: Baseline UK Biobank data from 502,504 individuals were collected between 2006 and 2010. Subsequent PSP and Parkinson's disease cases were identified from primary and secondary care electronic health records' diagnostic coding data and death registry, with 5404 matched controls.</p>
RESULTS: 176 PSP cases (time to diagnosis 7.8 ± 2.8 years) and 2526 Parkinson's disease cases (time to diagnosis 7.8 ± 2.9 years) were identified. At baseline, those later diagnosed with PSP had slower reaction times, weaker hand grip, lower fluid intelligence, prospective memory, self-rated health scores and digit recall than controls. Reaction times were correlated with time to diagnosis. The PSP group had higher mortality than both Parkinson's disease and control groups.</p>
CONCLUSIONS: Motor slowing, cognitive dysfunction, and postural instability are clinical diagnostic features of PSP that are typically symptomatic three years before diagnosis. Objective markers of these features were evident on average 7.8 years before diagnosis. Our findings suggest the existence of a long prediagnostic phase in PSP, with subtle changes in motor and cognitive function.</p>
6 Keywords
- Biological Specimen Banks
- Hand Strength
- Humans
- Parkinson Disease
- Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive
- United Kingdom
4 Authors
- Duncan Street
- David Whiteside
- Timothy Rittman
- James B Rowe
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