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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. A double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study of tacrine for Alzheimer's disease. The Tacrine Collaborative Study Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 1992-10-01 Treatments

    In this short-term study in patients with Alzheimer's disease who were selected for apparent responsiveness to tacrine, treatment with tacrine resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the decline of cognitive function, although this reduction was not large enough to be detected by the study physicians' global assessments of the patients.

  2. A real-world disproportionality analysis of FDA adverse event reporting system (FAERS) events for lecanemab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2025-04-02 Treatments

    Recent Phase 3 clinical trials have demonstrated its ability to reduce brain amyloid-β (Aβ) load and slow cognitive decline in patients with early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. Ischemic stroke associated with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities in a patient treated with lecanemab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-08-30 Treatments

    Our case suggests that ischemic strokes may be a feature of ARIA and highlights the importance of having a high clinical suspicion for seizures in ARIA.

  4. Validation of 3- and 5-point severity scales to assess ARIA-E

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-10-01 Treatments

    Our study suggests that SSAE-3 and SSAE-5 are valid ARIA-E rating scales for use in routine clinical practice by experienced radiologists in specialized settings.

  5. Early-stage Alzheimer disease: getting trial-ready

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2022-04-04 Treatments

    Slowing the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) might be the greatest unmet medical need of our time.

  6. Evaluation of liraglutide in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2021-12-01 Drug development

    Preclinical evidence in transgenic models of Alzheimer’s disease suggests that liraglutide exerts neuroprotective effects by reducing amyloid oligomers, normalising synaptic plasticity and cerebral glucose uptake, and increasing the proliferation of neuronal progenitor cells.

  7. Antidiabetic Drugs for the Risk of Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Type 2 DM Using FAERS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2020-01-01 Drug development

    Alzheimer disease (AD) may develop after the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and the risk of AD may depend on the antidiabetic drug administered.

  8. Development of comorbidities in men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy: an Australian population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases 2018-05-02 Digital health tools

    Men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy had a higher likelihood of developing new comorbidities than men who did not receive androgen deprivation therapy.

  9. Association of Autonomic Dysfunction With Disease Progression and Survival in Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-08-01 Digital health tools

    Earlier AutD is associated with a more rapid development of disease milestones and shorter survival in patients with PD.

  10. First-in-human, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-dose escalation study of aducanumab (BIIB037) in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2016-06-20 Treatments

    In this single-dose study, aducanumab demonstrated an acceptable safety and tolerability profile and linear PK at doses ≤30 mg/kg (clinicaltrials.govNCT01397539).

  11. Use of antihypertensives and the risk of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2008-02-06 Drug development

    Current long-term use of calcium channel blockers was associated with a significantly reduced risk of a Parkinson disease diagnosis, while the risk was not materially altered for users of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or beta-blockers and, with less statistical precision, for users of angiotensin II antagonists.

  12. Improvement in behavioural symptoms in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease by memantine: a pooled data analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2007-12-03 Treatments

    At weeks 12 and 24/28, ITT analysis demonstrated that memantine treatment produced statistically significant benefits over placebo treatment in NPI total score (p=0.001 and p=0.008), and in NPI single items: delusions (p=0.007 week 12, p=0.001 week 24/28), hallucinations (p=0.037 week 12), agitation/aggression (p=0.001 week 12, p=0.001 week 24/28), and irritability/lability (p=0.005 week 24/28), LOCF population.

  13. Statin therapy is associated with reduced neuropathologic changes of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2007-08-01 Drug development

    These findings demonstrate an association between antecedent statin use and neurofibrillary tangle burden at autopsy.

  14. National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Management of Menopause-Related Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 2005-06-21 Disparities

    NIH Conferences21 June 2005National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Management of Menopause-Related SymptomsFREENIH State-of-the-Science Panel*NIH State-of-the-Science Panel*Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-142-12_Part_1-200506210-00117 SectionsAboutVisual AbstractPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus and state-of-the-science statements are prepared by independent panels of health professionals and public representatives on the basis of 1) the results of a systematic literature review prepared under contract with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2) presentations by investigators working in areas relevant to the conference questions during a 2-day public session, 3) questions and statements from conference attendees during open discussion periods that are part of the public session, and 4) closed deliberations by the panel during the remainder of the second day and the morning of the third.

  15. Cost-effectiveness of donepezil in the treatment of mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 1999-04-01 Treatments

    The results of the cost-effectiveness model presented here suggest that donepezil may be cost-effective but additional controlled data on long-term drug efficacy are needed.

  16. Lifetime cost-effectiveness of lecanemab for early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in public health 2026-01-30 Costs and economics

    The incremental cost of the lecanemab group compared to the aducanumab group was $30,018.97, with an increase in quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) of 0.25, resulting in an ICER of $121,678.49 per QALY gained.

  17. Patterns and predictors of cholinesterase inhibitor use in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025-07-19 Treatments

    We found that 51.9% of DLB patients were ever prescribed a ChEI, and those who were prescribed a ChEI had a greater diagnosis interval.

  18. Initial Experience with Lecanemab and Lessons Learned in 71 Patients in a Regional Medical Center

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024-01-01 Treatments

    The mean age was 72 years (49-90 years), and 44 (62%) patients were female.

  19. Therapeutic preference for Alzheimer's disease treatments: a discrete choice experiment with caregivers and neurologists

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-03-24 Treatments

    Caregivers and neurologists considered incremental clinical benefit over SOC and safety to be highly desirable qualities for a new drug that could clear amyloid plaques and delay clinical progression and indicated a willingness to accept incremental ARIA-E to achieve additional clinical benefits.

  20. Comparing ARIA-E severity scales and effects of treatment management thresholds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-12-02 Treatments

    SSAE-3/5 scores correlated with BGTS scores, with high inter-reader intraclass correlation coefficients across all scales.

  21. Multicrossover Randomized Controlled Trial Designs in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-08-29 Clinical trials

    Conventional parallel group randomized controlled clinical trials (RCT) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are too large, long, expensive and insensitive to clinical change to meet the urgent need for an effective treatment.

  22. Simultaneous usage of dementia medications and anticholinergics among Asians and Pacific Islanders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2017-04-07 Treatments

    Overall, 304 patients receiving cholinesterase inhibitors/memantine also received anticholinergics.

  23. Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease: A Case-Control Study Based on Swiss Claims Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. CNS drugs 2017-03-01 Digital health tools

    After taking into consideration a possible protopathic bias in the 2 years preceding the AD diagnosis date, benzodiazepine use was not associated with an increased risk of developing AD.

  24. Crenezumab is a humanized anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) monoclonal IgG4 antibody in development for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  25. Trends in Psychotropic Dispensing Among Older Adults with Dementia Living in Long-Term Care Facilities: 2004-2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2015-07-17 Digital health tools

    Utilization patterns of psychotropic drugs in institutionalized patients with dementia have changed over the past decade.

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