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Patients diagnosed with AD during 2010\u20132013 (aged 60\u201381\u2009years) were identified from the Finnish national health registers and enlarged with a smaller private sector sample (total <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091,268). Patients with other disorders impacting cognition were excluded. Detailed clinical and cognitive screening data (the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease neuropsychological battery [CERAD-nb]) were obtained from local health records. Adequate cognitive data were available for 389 patients with mild AD (31%) of the entire AD group. The main reasons for not including patients in analyses of cognitive performance were AD diagnosis at a moderate\/severe stage (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009266, 21%), AD diagnosis given before full register coverage (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009152, 12%), and missing CERAD-nb data (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009139, 11%). The cognitive performance of persons with late-onset AD (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009284), mixed cerebrovascular disease and AD (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200951), and other AD subtypes (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200954) was compared with that of a non-demented sample (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091980) from the general population. Compared with the other AD groups, patients with late-onset AD performed the worst in word list recognition, while patients with mixed cerebrovascular disease and AD performed the worst in constructional praxis and clock drawing tests. A combination of national registers and local health records can be used to collect data relevant for cognitive screening; today, the process is laborious, but it could be improved in the future with refined search algorithms and electronic data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.901945","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,1]],"date-time":"2022-07-01T07:41:51Z","timestamp":1656661311000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Cognitive Performance at Time of AD Diagnosis: A Clinically Augmented Register-Based Study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Minna","family":"Alenius","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Hokkanen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sanna","family":"Koskinen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ilona","family":"Hallikainen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tuomo","family":"H\u00e4nninen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mira","family":"Karrasch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Minna M.","family":"Raivio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marja-Liisa","family":"Laakkonen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johanna","family":"Kr\u00fcger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Noora-Maria","family":"Suhonen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Miia","family":"Kivipelto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tiia","family":"Ngandu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1159\/000495657","article-title":"Cognitive performance among cognitively healthy adults aged 30\u2013100 years","volume":"9","author":"Alenius","year":"2019","journal-title":"Dementia and Geriatric Cognit. 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