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Identifying a subgroup at highest risk may improve treatment targeting.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We analyzed data from participants with MCI enrolled in the Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Cognitive domains included memory, executive functioning, language, and visuospatial abilities. We evaluated baseline performance and 6-month change scores, using proportional hazards models to estimate associations with time to conversion to AD dementia.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The strength of association varied by domain, but in general both baseline performance and 6-month change were associated with conversion. The strongest effects observed for memory and language. Observed associations were largely independent of established risk biomarkers, including APOE genotype, structural MRI measures, and CSF biomarkers.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>DISCUSSION<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>6-month change scores on cognitive tests may help identify a high-risk subgroup of persons with MCI likely to progress to AD dementia.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESEARCH IN CONTEXT<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:list list-type=\"order\">\n                    <jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:p>Systematic review. The authors reviewed the literature using traditional (e.g. PubMed) sources. There is a modest literature on change scores in the context of the AD clinical spectrum, but few investigations have evaluated whether short-term changes may be able to identify a high-risk subgroup of people with MCI. The authors have published a systematic review of this literature (Jutten et al. 2020) and appropriately refer to relevant citations here.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:list-item>\n                    <jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:p>Interpretation: Our findings suggest that short-term changes in cognition may be useful as part of a strategy to identify subsets of people with MCI who are at highest risk of conversion. Findings were clearest for memory and language. Domain-specific changes appeared to be independent from other biomarkers used to identify people at highest risk. Domain-specific changes did not appear to be better than changes in global cognition as measured by the MMSE or the CDR-sum of boxes.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:list-item>\n                    <jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:p>Future directions: Short-term changes in cognition may be useful to help identify a subgroup of people with MCI at highest risk of conversion to AD dementia. Future work could consider time frames shorter than the 6-month data we had available, better characterizing changes with more than 2 time points, or developing strategies that combine changes in cognition with other biomarkers to identify a subgroup of people with MCI to target for treatment.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:list-item>\n                  <\/jats:list>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.64898\/2025.12.30.25343228","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,31]],"date-time":"2025-12-31T00:00:10Z","timestamp":1767139210000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Six month repeat cognitive testing to identify people with MCI at greatest AD dementia risk"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"given":"Douglas","family":"Tommet","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 222 Richmond St, Providence, RI 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