CORRECTION article

Front. Aging Neurosci., 09 October 2017

Sec. Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Volume 9 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00325

Corrigendum: Obesity and Co-morbid Conditions Are Associated with Specific Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Mild Cognitive Impairment

  • 1. Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

  • 2. Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

  • 3. Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

In the original article, there was a mistake in Figure 1 as published. The color coded label for subject groups was switched for T2D and OSA groups. The light bars should be for the T2D and the OSA groups and the dark bars should be for the no-T2D and no-OSA groups. The legend and explanations of the results are all stated correctly to reflect the result as it should have appeared. The corrected Figure 1 appears below.

Figure 1

In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 3 as published. The statistic column indicated the measures were χ2 or F when it should have said χ2 or t. The legend description and statistics for Table 3 are all correct. The headings for the columns followed the format of Tables 1–2 but should have a t not F written to reflect the test conducted. The corrected Table 3 appears below.

Table 3

CharacteristicT2D N = 23No-T2D N = 88Statistic χ2 or tp-valueOSA N = 23No-OSA N = 88Statistic χ2 or tp-value
Age (years)73.0 (1.25)74.6 (0.87)1.060.2972.7 (1.38)74.7 (0.86)1.070.287
Female, n (%)12 (52.2)40 (45.5)0.330.577 (30.4)45 (51.1)3.140.076
Education (years)13.3 (0.77)14.9 (0.33)2.010.04715.0 (0.86)14.4 (0.33)0.640.450
BMI (kg/m2)29.9 (1.08)26.7 (0.47)3.000.00330.65 (0.92)26.52 (0.48)3.95<0.001
MMSE25.8 (0.36)26.7 (0.19)2.130.03526.74 (0.37)26.40 (0.19)0.830.411
MCI-severity−1.04 (0.15)−0.86 (0.06)1.210.230−0.73 (0.18)−0.93 (0.06)1.270.208
NPI-Q score7.63 (1.18)4.48 (0.62)2.380.0197.75 (1.37)4.59 (0.60)2.230.028
≥1, n (%)17 (89.5)51 (76.1)1.600.33814 (87.5)54 (77.1)0.840.505
≥4, n (%)14 (73.7)27 (40.3)6.610.01011 (68.8)30 (42.9)3.500.061
GDS score4.26 (0.87)2.67 (0.26)2.360.0203.76 (0.85)2.77 (0.25)1.120.274
≥1, n (%)18 (94.7)71 (85.5)1.180.45318 (85.7)71 (87.7)0.0560.812
≥4, n (%)9 (47.4)22 (26.5)3.180.0758 (38.1)23 (28.4)0.740.389

Demographic, cognitive, and behavioral measures of T2D and OSA groups.

In the original article, there was an error. In the discussion the word BMI was used where the word obesity should have been placed when discussing the MCI severity results. There was a difference across BMI groups with a p-value of 0.02 but this significance was not associated with obesity which should have been stated. A correction has been made to the Discussion section, paragraph 4:

In contrast to our hypothesis, MCI severity was not associated with obesity or T2D and OSA groups. The severity of cognitive symptoms was greatest for normal weight subjects although there was no difference in MMSE scores. One explanation may be that MCI is defined by cognitive impairment and represents a transitional state with a narrow range of deficits. There is a cut-off to the severity that reflects mild cognitive impairments before one achieves psychometric criteria for dementia. Moreover our study subjects are diagnosed as MCI by a stringent criterion of −1.5 SD in at least one cognitive domain, which in other studies has been broader, (e.g., −1.0 SD in 2 cognitive domains). This difference in criteria may provide a more uniform assessment of overall MCI severity. Another possibility is that an overall severity score is not a sufficiently nuanced measure of cognitive status. Diabetes and OSA show greater cognitive deficits in executive function than memory. It may be more effective to measure individual cognitive domain severity in order to detect differences in the effects of disorders such as T2D, OSA and even OB. Finally, MCI severity may differentiate groups later in the disease course, which cannot be examined in a cross-sectional design. However, one research study showed that MCI subjects with at least one symptom on the NPI-Q or GDS, and lower initial cognitive status resulted in a more rapid development of dementia (Rosenberg et al., 2013). In our T2D subjects, general cognition measured by the MMSE was significantly lower (p = 0.03) while NPI-Q and GDS total scores were nearly doubled compared to subjects without T2D. This may indicate that MCI subjects with T2D and NPS ≥ 4 are at an increased risk for conversion to dementia.

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Keywords

mild cognitive impairment, behavioral symptoms, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, Type 2 diabetes

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Sanderlin AH, Todem D and Bozoki AC (2017) Corrigendum: Obesity and Co-morbid Conditions Are Associated with Specific Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Front. Aging Neurosci. 9:325. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00325

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07 August 2017

Accepted

20 September 2017

Published

09 October 2017

Volume

9 - 2017

Edited and reviewed by

P. Hemachandra Reddy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, United States

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*Correspondence: Ashley H. Sanderlin

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