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Abstract
Objective: We assessed a blood-based signature, which previously demonstrated high accuracy at stratifying individuals with high or low neocortical β-amyloid burden (NAB), to determine whether it could also identify individuals at risk of progression to Alzheimer disease (AD) within 54 months.
Methods: We generated the blood-based signature for 585 healthy controls (HCs) and 74 participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study who underwent clinical reclassification (blinded to biomarker findings) at 54-month follow-up. The individuals were split into estimated high and low NAB groups based on a cutoff of 1.5 standardized uptake value ratio. We assessed the predictive accuracy of the high and low NAB groupings based on progression to mild cognitive impairment or AD according to clinical reclassification at 54-month follow-up.
Results: Twelve percent of HCs with estimated high NAB progressed in comparison to 5% of HCs with estimated low NAB (odds ratio = 2.4). Forty percent of the participants with MCI who had estimated high NAB progressed in comparison to 5% of the participants with MCI who had estimated low NAB (odds ratio = 12.3). These ratios are in line with those reported for Pittsburgh compound B–PET results. Individuals with estimated high NAB had faster rates of memory decline than those with estimated low NAB.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that a simple blood-based signature not only provides estimates of NAB but also predicts cognitive decline and disease progression, identifying individuals at risk of progressing toward AD at the prodromal and preclinical stages.
GLOSSARY
- Aβ=
- β-amyloid;
- AD=
- Alzheimer disease;
- AIBL=
- Australian Imaging, Biomarker and Lifestyle;
- ANOVA=
- analysis of variance;
- AUC=
- area under the curve;
- BBE=
- blood-based estimate;
- BeCKeT=
- Before the Centiloid Kernel Transformation;
- CDR=
- Clinical Dementia Rating;
- CI=
- confidence interval;
- CoxPH=
- Cox proportional hazards;
- CXCL-13=
- chemokine ligand 13;
- FBP=
- 18F-florbetapir;
- FLUTE=
- 18F-flutemetamol;
- HC=
- healthy control;
- IgM-1=
- immunoglobulin M-1;
- IL-17=
- interleukin 17;
- MCI=
- mild cognitive impairment;
- NAB=
- neocortical β-amyloid burden;
- OR=
- odds ratio;
- PiB=
- Pittsburgh compound B;
- PPY=
- pancreatic polypeptide;
- ROC=
- receiver operating characteristic;
- SUV=
- standardized uptake value;
- SUVR=
- standardized uptake value ratio;
- VCAM-1=
- vascular cell adhesion molecule 1
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- Received January 17, 2016.
- Accepted in final form June 1, 2016.
- © 2016 American Academy of Neurology
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