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Parkinsons Disease Center, Parkinsons Disease Rating Scale and Mini Mental State Examination were evaluated annual-
College of Medicine, ly. We used Kaplan-Meier survival analysis to estimate the cumulative proportion of demen-
Dong-A University, Busan, Korea tia-free patients over time. Risk factors predicting dementia were also evaluated using Cox
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Department of Preventive Medicine, proportional-hazards regression models.
College of Medicine,
Dong-A University, Busan, Korea ResultszzThe median dementia-free survival time in the Korean PD population was 19.9
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Department of Statistics, Pukyong years. Among the 119 patients who subsequently developed dementia, the mean duration
National University, Busan, Korea from the onset of PD to the development of dementia was 10.6 years. A multivariate analysis
identified age at onset and education period as the significant predictors of dementia.
ConclusionszzThis is the first report on dementia-free survival in patients with PD based on
longitudinal data analysis from the disease onset. The median dementia-free survival time in Ko-
rean PD patients was found to be longer than expected.
Key WordszzParkinsons disease, dementia, dementia-free survival.
INTRODUCTION
Dementia has been recognized as one of the most important nonmotor symptoms of Par-
kinsons disease (PD) since it crucially affects both the quality of life and burden of care.1
Previous studies of the prevalence of dementia in PD have produced varying results that are
usually influenced by the methodology employed. For example, a previous review using
strict methodological criteria found that the prevalence of dementia in PD was 31.3%,2 and
this finding was supported by studies suggesting that the rate of dementia in PD ranges be-
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tween 22% (in the Rotterdam Study) and 44% (in people with PD older than 60 years).3,4
Revised June 1, 2016 However, these studies underestimated the true prevalence of dementia, since the mortality
Accepted June 2, 2016 rate tends to be higher among patients with dementia than among patients without demen-
Correspondence tia with PD.5 In addition, reports on the point prevalence do not provide information on
Jae Woo Kim, MD, PhD the cumulative proportion of patients with PD who develop dementia. A recent study con-
Department of Neurology,
Parkinsons Disease Center, ducted in Sydney with a 20-year follow-up found that 83% of the surviving 30 PD patients
College of Medicine, had dementia, and 75% of all patients had developed dementia prior to death.6 However,
Dong-A University, these studies also do not provide information on the duration from the onset of PD to the
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to the development of dementia in the PD population was velopment of dementia. However, there were no differences
19.0 (14.029.0) years [median (interquartile range)]. Pa- in dementia-free survival time between patients who had
tients who were older at onset (62 years old) showed a and did not have chronic illness. The sex of PD patients and
shorter duration from the onset of PD to the development of the HY stage also did not affect dementia-free survival. In the
dementia (log-rank test: p<0.001) (Fig. 2). multivariate analysis, age at onset and education period were
found to be significant predictors of dementia in PD (Table 2).
Variables associated with dementia
In the univariate analyses, age at onset, education period, DISCUSSION
and MMSE scores were significantly correlated with the de-
There are several reasons why few studies have explored the
frequency of dementia in PD using survival analyses from
Survival function estimate
disease onset: 1) it is difficult to follow up a patient from dis-
1.0
Survival function ease onset to the late stages of PD, 2) dementia usually devel-
Censored ops in the later stages of the disease and is very difficult to
Proportion of dementia-free patients
0.8
follow upthis typically leads to inaccurate information on
the cumulative proportion of dementia because of a high
0.6
dropout rate, and 3) dementia develops rather insidiously in
PD, which makes it difficult to determine the time of demen-
0.4
tia onset. These factors explain why serial assessment based
on close observation is crucial for accurately determining
0.2
event timing.
The median dementia-free survival time in our cohort was
0.0 19.0 years. While it is likely that this duration is longer than
0 10 20 30 40 those found in previous studies, methodological differences
Disease duration from onset of PD (years)
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