J Korean Neurol Assoc.
2006 Oct;24(5):458-464.
The Differences of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in the Patients of Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia
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- 1Department of Neurology, Gimhae Hansol Hospital, Gimhae, Korea. neurology@lycos.co.kr
- 2Department of Social Welfare, Kyung Sung University, Busan, Korea.
- 3Department of Neurology, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
- 4Department of Neurology, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
- 5Department of Neurology, Busan Medical Center, Busan, Korea.
- 6Department of Family Stuides, Silla University, Busan, Korea.
- 7Department of Neurology, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
- 8Department of Neurology, Sungkyunkwan University of Medicine Masan Samsung Hospital, Masan, Korea.
- 9Department of Neurology, Masan Taebong Hospital, Masan, Korea.
- 10Department of Neurology, Dong-eui Medical Center, Busan, Korea.
- 11Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
- 12Department of Neurology, Maryknoll Hospital, Busan, Korea.
Abstract
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BACKGROUND: Behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) are common in dementia. These may be helpful for clinical differentiation between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD). Most previous studies have reported the prevalence and severity of BPSD regardless of severity of progression. However, we evaluated the differences of BPSD by grading dementia progression and including severe cases only.
METHODS
141 dementia outpatients from clinics of Busan-Gyeongnam Dementia Association in Korea were analyzed. All patients were administered the Korean version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (K-NPI), the expanded version of Korean Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR), and the Korean version of Mini-Mental State Examination (K-MMSE).
RESULTS
There were 95 patients with AD and 46 patients with VD. AD patients revealed higher frequency of manifested BPSD symptoms and most of subscales showed higher composite scores also. But apathy was more severely and frequently manifested in VD. AD patients had more frequent night-time behavior and aberrant motor symptoms above 3 point in CDR 0.5 and VD patients had more frequent apathy symptom above 3 point in CDR 1.
CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest that generally AD patients revealed more frequent and severe BPSDs than VD patients. Apathy was a more dominant symptom in VD. It seemed that some of the symptoms were valuable clues for the differential diagnosis even though a better designed study was required.
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