{"id":1791,"date":"2018-03-28T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzheimer.noemi.lu\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T08:51:38","slug":"wp3-epad-registry-paper-publishes-in-alzheimers-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/wp3-epad-registry-paper-publishes-in-alzheimers-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"WP3 EPAD Registry paper in Alzheimer&#8217;s &#038; Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: It is a challenge to find participants for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD) prevention trials within a short period of time. The European Prevention of Alzheimer&#8217;s Dementia Registry (EPAD) aims to facilitate recruitment by preselecting subjects from ongoing cohort studies. This article introduces this novel approach.<\/p>\n<p>Methods: A virtual registry, with access to risk factors and biomarkers for AD through minimal data sets of ongoing cohort studies, was set up.<\/p>\n<p>Results: To date, ten cohorts have been included in the EPAD. Around 2500 participants have been selected, using variables associated with the risk for AD. Of these, 15% were already recruited in the EPAD longitudinal cohort study, which serves as a trial readiness cohort.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: This study demonstrates that a virtual registry can be used for the preselection of participants for AD studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published <strong>Online in\u00a0Alzheimer&#8217;s &amp; Dementia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jalz.2018.02.010<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT: Introduction: It is a challenge to find participants for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD) prevention trials within a short period of time. The European Prevention of Alzheimer&#8217;s Dementia Registry (EPAD) aims to facilitate recruitment by preselecting subjects from ongoing cohort studies. This article introduces this novel approach. Methods: A virtual registry, with access to risk factors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}