Cognitive Skills Questionnaire: Comparative Results in Elderly Population without Cognitive Deficit, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

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Comments: The Discussion section thoroughly analyses the data presented in the Results section and the findings provide a clinical prospect for the elaboration of screening instruments with marker value for the identification of population at risk of developing cognitive impairment. It adequately discusses the literature relevant to this study.

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Further comments on the paper

Comments: This retrospective study, involving 208 patients within a range age of 50 and over 80 years old, shows the significance of cognitive skills questionnaire (CSQ) as an efficient screening tool of good clinical value for cognitive assessment in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and a group with no cognitive disorder. CSQ and a battery of neuropsychological proofs comprising ANOVA, Student’s t-test, Tuckey test, ROC curve and principal components analysis aim at identifying high risk patients with cognitive disorder. Though the results present a CSQ score higher than expected along with the presence of specific cognitive problems that discriminate between controls and MCI patients, it is still not clear if such results correspond to individuals at high risk of progression of cognitive decline.

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