Research Article

Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination and Individual Domain Cut-Off Scores for Discriminating between Different Cognitive Subtypes of Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

Patient characteristics (). Characteristics are described as median (min-max).

Total () PD-NC () PD-MCI () PD-D () valuePost hoc values
PD-NC
× PD-MCI
PD-MCI
× PD-D
PD-NC
× PD-D

Sex, males (%)41 (59.4%)13 (59.1%)25 (67.6%)3 (30.0%)0.100
Age (years)68 (49–86)70 (51–86)67 (49–81)65 (54–82)0.754
Education (years)13 (9–18)13 (12–18)13 (9–18)12 (9–18)0.0060.4660.0620.004
PD duration (years)7 (1–22)7 (3–21)8 (1–18)6 (2–22)0.510
L-dopa dose (mg/day)907 (0–2275)1037 (0–2275)931 (56–2108)591 (160–1836)0.0420.8700.1580.044
UPDRS III25 (3–55)29 (5–49)25 (5–55)19 (3–52)0.333
MMSE29 (16–30)29 (27–30)29 (27–30)25 (16–26)<0.0010.046<0.001<0.001
ACE-R87 (60–99)93 (80–98)87 (72–99)79 (60–87)<0.0010.0010.020<0.001
ACE-R AO18 (13–18)18 (17-18)17 (15–18)15 (13–18)<0.0010.130<0.001<0.001
ACE-R M21 (3–26)23 (17–26)19 (12–26)18 (3–21)0.0010.0570.1260.001
ACE-R F11 (3–14)13 (6–14)10 (3–14)9 (5–12)0.0010.0050.7820.004
ACE-R L25 (20–26)26 (24–26)25 (20–26)25 (21–26)0.176
ACE-R VA15 (10–16)16 (13–16)15 (12–16)14 (10–16)0.0030.2500.0310.005

UPDRS III: Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale.
MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination.
ACE-R: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination, global score.
ACE-R AO: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination, domain attention and orientation.
ACE-R M: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination, domain memory.
ACE-R F: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination, domain verbal fluency.
ACE-R L: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination, domain language.
ACE-R VA: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination, domain visual spatial abilities.