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Record W2317185920 · doi:10.1017/s0317167100005631

Primary Prevention and Delay of Onset of AD/Dementia

2007· review· en· W2317185920 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Howard Feldman, Claudia Jacova

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques · 2007
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAlzheimer's disease research and treatments
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDementiaMedicineDiseaseClinical trialPrimary preventionRandomized controlled trialEpidemiologyAlzheimer's diseaseIntensive care medicineInternal medicine

Abstract

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Prevention in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (AD/dementia) is defined on the basis of clinical states and their expressed symptoms. Primary prevention refers to delaying the development of the full-blown state of clinically expressed disease in normal individuals. Current primary prevention research is driven by evidence of AD/dementia protective factors that have emerged from epidemiological studies. The first randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of primary AD/dementia prevention have been designed to test the efficacy and safety of NSAIDs, hormonal therapy, antihypertensive drugs and antioxidants. The experience of these trials has indicated safety concerns as a key issue and highlighted significant design challenges in this type of research. These trials have required large sample sizes and unsustainable costs. There should be consideration given in future trials to enriching study samples with risk factors to increase progression rates to AD/dementia. Innovative strategies will also be needed to recruit and retain subjects given the long follow-up periods, modest perceived benefit and the potential for the risk-benefit ratio to change during the trial. It is foreseeable that regulatory authorities will be presented with primary prevention RCTs for approval and labelling, and that criteria to evaluate such evidence still need to be developed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.095
GPT teacher head0.372
Teacher spread0.278 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations14
Published2007
Admission routes2
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