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Vascular burden and Alzheimer disease pathologic progression

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Lo, Raymond Y., Jagust, William J., Weiner, Michael, Aisen, Paul, Weiner, Michael, Aisen, Paul, Petersen, Ronald, Jack, Clifford R. +249 more·2012·Neurology

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the vascular contribution to longitudinal changes in Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers. METHODS: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative is a clinic based, longitudinal study with CSF, PET, and MRI biomarkers repeatedly measured in participants with normal cognition (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and mild AD. Participants with severe cerebrovascular risks were excluded. Cardiovascular risk scores and MRI white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) were treated as surrogate markers for vascular burden. Generalized estimating equations were applied, and both vascular burden and its interaction with time (vascular burden × time) or time-varying WMHs were entered into regression models to assess whether biomarker rates of change were modified by vascular burden. RESULTS: Cardiovascular risk profiles were not predictive of progression in CSF β₄₂-amyloid, [¹⁸F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET uptake, and MRI hippocampal atrophy. Greater baseline cardiovascular risks or WMHs were generally associated with cognitive impairment, particularly poor executive function. WMHs increased over time with a faster rate in MCI and AD than in NC. Increased time-varying WMH was associated with faster decline in executive function and lower FDG uptake in NC. Otherwise, WMH was not associated with CSF and MRI biomarkers in the 3 groups. These findings remained unchanged after accounting for APOE4. CONCLUSION: Increased WMHs are associated with aging, decreased glucose metabolism, and decline in executive function but do not affect AD-specific pathologic progression, suggesting that the vascular contribution to dementia is probably additive although not necessarily independent of the amyloid pathway.

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Lo, R. Y., Jagust, W. J., Weiner, M., Aisen, P., Weiner, M., Aisen, P., Petersen, R., Jack, C. R., Jagust, W., Trojanowki, J. Q., Toga, A. W., Beckett, L., Green, R. C., Saykin, A. J., Morris, J., Liu, E., Green, R. C., Montine, T., Petersen, R., Aisen, P., Gamst, A., Thomas, R. G., Donohue, M., Walter, S., Gessert, D., Sather, T., Beckett, L., Harvey, D., Gamst, A., Donohue, M., Kornak, J., Jack, C. R., Dale, A., Bernstein, M., Felmlee, J., Fox, N., Thompson, P., Schuff, N., Alexander, G., DeCarli, C., Jagust, W., Bandy, D., Koeppe, R. A., Foster, N., Reiman, E. M., Chen, K., Mathis, C., Morris, J., Cairns, N. J., Taylor-Reinwald, L., Trojanowki, J. Q., Shaw, L., Lee, V. M. Y., Korecka, M., Toga, A. W., Crawford, K., Neu, S., Saykin, A. J., Foroud, T. M., Potkin, S., Shen, L., Kachaturian, Z., Frank, R., Snyder, P. J., Molchan, S., Kaye, J., Quinn, J., Lind, B., Dolen, S., Schneider, L. S., Pawluczyk, S., Spann, B. M., Brewer, J., Vanderswag, H., Heidebrink, J. L., Lord, J. L., Petersen, R., Johnson, K., Doody, R. S., Villanueva-Meyer, J., Chowdhury, M., Stern, Y., Honig, L. S., Bell, K. L., Morris, J. C., Ances, B., Carroll, M., Leon, S., Mintun, M. A., Schneider, S., Marson, D., Griffith, R., Clark, D., Grossman, H., Mitsis, E., Romirowsky, A., deToledo-Morrell, L., Shah, R. C., Duara, R., Varon, D., Roberts, P., Albert, M., Onyike, C., Kielb, S., Rusinek, H., de Leon, M. J., Glodzik, L., De Santi, S., Doraiswamy, P. M., Petrella, J. R., Coleman, R. E., Arnold, S. E., Karlawish, J. H., Wolk, D., Smith, C. D., Jicha, G., Hardy, P., Lopez, O. L., Oakley, M., Simpson, D. M., Porsteinsson, A. P., Goldstein, B. S., Martin, K., Makino, K. M., Ismail, M. S., Brand, C., Mulnard, R. A., Thai, G., Mc-Adams-Ortiz, C., Womack, K., Mathews, D., Quiceno, M., Diaz-Arrastia, R., King, R., Weiner, M., Martin-Cook, K., DeVous, M., Levey, A. I., Lah, J. J., Cellar, J. S., Burns, J. M., Anderson, H. S., Swerdlow, R. H., Apostolova, L., Lu, P. H., Bartzokis, G., Silverman, D. H. S., Graff-Radford, N. R., Parfitt, F., Johnson, H., Farlow, M. R., Hake, A. M., Matthews, B. R., Herring, S., van Dyck, C. H., Carson, R. E., MacAvoy, M. G., Chertkow, H., Bergman, H., Hosein, C., Black, S., Stefanovic, D. B., Caldwell, C., Hsiung, G.-Y. R., Feldman, H., Mudge, B., Assaly, M., Kertesz, A., Rogers, J., Trost, D., Bernick, C., Munic, D., Kerwin, D., Mesulam, M.-M., Lipowski, K., Wu, C.-K., Johnson, N., Sadowsky, C., Martinez, W., Villena, T., Turner, R. S., Johnson, K., Reynolds, B., Sperling, R. A., Johnson, K. A., Marshall, G., Frey, M., Yesavage, J., Taylor, J. L., Lane, B., Rosen, A., Tinklenberg, J., Sabbagh, M., Belden, C., Jacobson, S., Kowall, N., Killiany, R., Budson, A. E., Norbash, A., Johnson, P. L., Obisesan, T. O., Wolday, S., Bwayo, S. K., Lerner, A., Hudson, L., Ogrocki, P., Fletcher, E., Carmichael, O., Olichney, J., DeCarli, C., Kittur, S., Borrie, M., Lee, T.-Y., Bartha, D. R., Johnson, S., Asthana, S., Carlsson, C. M., Potkin, S. G., Preda, A., Nguyen, D., Tariot, P., Fleisher, A., Reeder, S., Bates, V., Capote, H., Rainka, M., Scharre, D. W., Kataki, M., Zimmerman, E. A., Celmins, D., Brown, A. D., Pearlson, G. D., Blank, K., Anderson, K., Saykin, A. J., Santulli, R. B., Schwartz, E. S., Sink, K. M., Williamson, J. D., Garg, P., Watkins, F., Ott, B. R., Querfurth, H., Tremont, G., Salloway, S., Malloy, P., Correia, S., Rosen, H. J., Miller, B. L., Mintzer, J., Longmire, C. F., Spicer, K., Finger, E., Rachinsky, I., Rogers, J., Kertesz, A., & Drost, D.
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  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
  • From the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (R.Y.L., W.J.J.), and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (W.J.J.), University of California, Berkeley; Department of Neurology (R.Y.L.), Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; College of Medicine (R.Y.L.), Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan; and Life Sciences Division (W.J.J.), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
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Venue
Neurology
Published
2012-09-25
Volume
79
Issue
13
Pages
1349-1355
ISSN
  • 0028-3878 (ISSN-L)
  • 1526-632X
OpenAlex
W2055568131
Cited by
156
References
36
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FWCI
14.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neurology (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5u01ag024904-10)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • National Institute on Aging (U01-AG-024904, P30AG010129, K01AG030514, P30AG013846, U19AG010483)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, vascular burden, white matter hyperintensities, cardiovascular risk, mild cognitive impairment, CSF amyloid-beta 42, hippocampal atrophy, executive function decline, APOE ε4, disease progression
MeSH terms
Aged, Alzheimer Disease, Atrophy, Brain, Female, Genotype, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Disease Progression, Positron-Emission Tomography, Leukoencephalopathies, Cognitive Dysfunction

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