Porto-AD Cohort
First real-world cohort in Brazil.
Includes all patients from the Memory Center at Hospital Moinhos de Vento who consent to participate in the cohort.
Objectives: prevention, diagnosis, and potentially treatment of neurodegenerative pathologies.
- Prevention: understanding risk factors and determinants of cognitive health in the population
- Diagnosis: investigating new diagnostic methods and workflows with greater accuracy
- Treatment: assessing patient eligibility according to clinical trial criteria and novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
- Mechanism: evaluating the moderating, direct, or indirect effects of copathologies and multimorbidities on cognitive outcomes
Baseline assessment: sociodemographic data, anthropometry, MMSE, MoCA, FAQ, QDRS, risk factors (24 factors), adjudicated clinical diagnosis
Cognitive assessment: memory, language, executive functions, visuospatial functions, attention, social cognition
Neuroimaging assessment: structural MRI, ASL, DTI, PET-FBB, PET-FDG
Biofluid biobank: blood, plasma, CSF
