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Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders

France700 participantsStarted 2009-11

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this study is to compare characteristics of gait and balance measured among patients with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders separated into 3 groups according to the stage of disease (i.e., pre-dementia, mild and moderate dementia stages); to determine the effects of anti-dementia drugs and vitamin D on cognitive motor abnormalities; and to establish a database at Angers University Memory Centre.

Who can participate

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * All elderly patients from the University Memory Center of Angers University Hospital. * Able to walk without any walking aid on 15 meters * Mini-Mental Status Examination score \> 10 * Being affiliated to a social security regime Exclusion Criteria: * Mini-Mental Status Examination score ≤ 10 * Subject suffering from pre-existing impellent disturbances * History of cerebrovascular accident or other cerebro-spinal pathology * Poor workmanship of the written or oral French language * Use of walking aid such as walking frame with wheels or tricycle. * Acute medical or surgical disease in the past 3 months * Refusal to participate (or trustworthy person) * Near visual acuity \< 2/10

What they're measuring

Spatiotemporal gait parameters

Timeframe: baseline

Trial details

NCT IDNCT01315704

SponsorUniversity Hospital, Angers

Sponsor typeOTHER_GOV

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2017-11

Contact for this trial

Cedric ANNWEILER, DM

(+33) 241354725 ceannweiler@chu-angers.fr

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