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Combotherapy and current concepts as well as future strategies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Overview of attention for article published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, March 2014
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Title
Combotherapy and current concepts as well as future strategies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, March 2014
DOI 10.2147/ndt.s45143
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Ling-Yun Fan, Ming-Jang Chiu

Abstract

It has been estimated that 35.6 million people globally had dementia in 2010 and the prevalence of dementia has been predicted to double every 20 years. Thus, 115.4 million people may be living with dementia in 2050. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and is present in 60%-70% of people with dementia. Unfortunately, there are few approved drugs that can alleviate the cognitive or behavioral symptoms of AD dementia. Recent studies have revealed that pathophysiological changes related to AD occur decades before the appearance of clinical symptoms of dementia. This extended preclinical phase of AD provides a critical chance for disease-modifying agents to halt or delay the relentless process of AD. Although several trials targeting various pathological processes are ongoing, the examination of the combined use of different approaches to combat AD seems warranted. In this article, we will review current therapies, future strategies, and ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of AD with a special focus on combination therapies. Furthermore, preventive strategies for cognitively normal subjects in the presymptomatic stages of AD will also be addressed. In this review, we discuss current hypotheses of the disease process. In the decades since the approval of cholinesterase inhibitors, no new drug has ultimately demonstrated clear success in clinical trials. Given the difficulties that have been encountered in attempts to identify a single drug that can treat AD, we must pursue effective multi-target strategies, ie, combination therapies. The combination of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine is considered well tolerated and safe, and this combination benefits patients with moderate-to-severe AD. In contrast, with the exception of adjuvant therapies of conventional drugs, combinations of different disease-modifying agents with different mechanisms may have promising synergic effects and benefit cognition, behavior, and daily living function.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 2%
Unknown 54 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 20%
Student > Master 9 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 16%
Researcher 7 13%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 4%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 8 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 35%
Psychology 10 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 8 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2022.
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#3,583,518
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#525
of 3,132 outputs
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#34,671
of 236,354 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#7
of 57 outputs
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