ADCOMS sensitivity versus baseline diagnosis and progression phenotypes

Abstract

Background: the Alzheimer's Disease COMposite Score (ADCOMS) is more sensitive in clinical trials than conventional measures when assessing pre-dementia. This study compares ADCOMS trajectories using clustered progression characteristics to better understand different patterns of decline.

Methods: post-baseline ADCOMS values were analyzed for sensitivity using mean-to-standard deviation ratio (MSDR), partitioned by baseline diagnosis, comparing with the original scales upon which ADCOMS is based. Because baseline diagnosis was not a particularly reliable predictor of progression, individuals were also grouped into similar ADCOMS progression trajectories using clustering methods and the MSDR compared for each progression group.

Results: ADCOMS demonstrated increased sensitivity for clinically important progression groups. ADCOMS did not show statistically significant sensitivity or clinical relevance for the less-severe baseline diagnoses and marginal progression groups.

Conclusions: this analysis complements and extends previous work validating the sensitivity of ADCOMS. The large data set permitted evaluation-in a novel approach-by the clustered progression group.

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