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2023-07-17
Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease: The TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 Randomized Clinical Trial
74/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical trials JAMA
Key finding: n=1,736 (860 donanemab, 876 placebo); 76-week Phase 3 trial across 277 sites in 8 countries +2 more findings
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2023-07-16
Novel CSF tau biomarkers can be used for disease staging of sporadic Alzheimer's disease
16/100 ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Key finding: SuStaIn revealed in the two cohorts that the data was best explained by a single biomarker sequence (one subtype), and that five CSF biomarkers (ordered: Aβ42/40, tau phosphorylation occupancies at the residues 217 and 205 [pT217/T217 and pT205/T205], microtubule-binding region of tau containing the residue 243 [MTBR-tau243], and total tau) were sufficient to create an accurate disease staging model. +3 more findings
Scored 43 on our rubric, shown as 16: non-peer-reviewed sources are capped at 16. See the breakdown.
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2023-07-16
ADAM10 as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review
53/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Revue neurologique
Key finding: Evidence shows that ADAM10 levels are altered in platelets, plasma, serum, and CSF of individuals with AD. +3 more findings
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2023-07-15
Promoting Healthy Aging: Public Health as a Leader for Reducing Dementia Risk
16/100 ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed Risk factors Public Policy & Aging Report
Key finding: It is estimated that for people aged 65 years and older, the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease was nearly double for women compared with men (Weinstein et al., 2012). +4 more findings
Scored 26 on our rubric, shown as 16: non-peer-reviewed sources are capped at 16. See the breakdown.
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2023-07-14
Health Care Resource Use and Social Costs in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer's Disease
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports
Key finding: Patients with mild AD had higher total costs, patient medical costs, patient social care costs, and family caregiver informal care costs than did patients with MCI; however, only patient medical costs were significantly different (p = 0.022). +3 more findings
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2023-07-14
Microglia regulation of central nervous system myelin health and regeneration
49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Nature reviews. Immunology
Key finding: Although microglia have been increasingly implicated in contributing to the pathology that underpins neurological dysfunction and disease, they also have crucial roles in neurological homeostasis and regeneration. +3 more findings
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2023-07-14
Tau and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: interplay mechanisms and clinical translation
54/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of neuroinflammation
Key finding: Its prominent neuropathological features are the extracellular neuritic plaques and intercellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau protein, respectively. +3 more findings
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2023-07-13
Analysis of Japanese nationwide health datasets: association between lifestyle habits and prevalence of neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia with reference to dementia-related diseases and Parkinson's disease
30/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Scandinavian journal of pain
Key finding: This study focuses on neuropathic pain (NP) and fibromyalgia (FM) which are chronic pain states, and aims to identify lifestyle habits associated with their prevalence. +4 more findings
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2023-07-13
Brain structure and phenotypic profile of superagers compared with age-matched older adults: a longitudinal analysis from the Vallecas Project
61/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools The lancet. Healthy longevity
Key finding: We aimed to characterise the brain structure of superagers and identify demographic, lifestyle, and clinical factors associated with this phenotype. +3 more findings
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2023-07-13
CSF MTBR-tau243 is a specific biomarker of tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer's disease
67/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Nature medicine
Key finding: Because clinical symptoms are strongly correlated with tau aggregates, drug development and clinical diagnosis need cost-effective and accessible specific fluid biomarkers of tau aggregates; however, recent studies suggest that the fluid biomarkers currently available cannot specifically track tau aggregates. +2 more findings
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2023-07-12
White matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's disease: An alternative view of an alternative hypothesis
61/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: White matter hyperintensities (WMH) - - areas of increased signal appearing on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging - - are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk and progression in late onset and genetic forms.
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2023-07-12
Grey matter volume and CSF biomarkers predict neuropsychological subtypes of MCI
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: In our study, we demonstrated that MCI participants of the ADNI database (N = 640) can be discriminated into 3 coherent neuropsychological subgroups. +2 more findings
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2023-07-12
Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration development
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Signal transduction and targeted therapy
Key finding: Studies in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and so on, have suggested that inflammation is not only a result of neurodegeneration but also a crucial player in this process. +1 more finding
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2023-07-12
Alzheimer`s disease mortality in the United States: Cross-sectional analysis of county-level socio-environmental factors
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
Key finding: Therefore, we aimed to explore high-risk SEDH factors possibly associated with all-cause mortality in AD across US counties using machine learning (ML) methods. +3 more findings
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2023-07-12
TREM2 receptor protects against complement-mediated synaptic loss by binding to complement C1q during neurodegeneration
51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Immunity
Key finding: Here, we found that TREM2 specifically attenuated the activation of classical complement cascade via high-affinity binding to its initiator C1q. +3 more findings
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2023-07-11
Pathophysiology and probable etiology of cerebral small vessel disease in vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Molecular neurodegeneration
Key finding: In VCID, cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) often affects arterioles, capillaries, and venules, where arteriolosclerosis and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) are major pathologies. +4 more findings
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2023-07-10
Clinical development of passive tau-based immunotherapeutics for treating primary and secondary tauopathies
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Expert opinion on investigational drugs
Key finding: Tauopathies are clinicopathological entities with increased and pathological deposition in glia and/or neurons of hyperphosphorylated aggregates of the microtubule-binding protein tau. +4 more findings
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2023-07-10
Optical Coherence Tomography Assessment of Macular Thickness in Alzheimer's Dementia with Different Neuropsychological Severities
64/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of personalized medicine
Key finding: AD patients had significant reductions in full macula layers, including inner circle, outer inferior area, and outer nasal area of the macula. +2 more findings
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2023-07-10
Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study in China
53/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Science bulletin
Key finding: A combination of the APOE genotype with plasma pTau and serum GFAP demonstrated exceptional performance in distinguishing Aβ status. +1 more finding
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2023-07-08
Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Dual-Function Life Expectancy
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Key finding: At ages 50-54, between 79.0% (95% CI: 73.5, 84.5) and 87.6% (95% CI: 84.0, 91.2) of (non-Hispanic) Black, foreign-born Hispanic, and U.S.-born Hispanic women and men remain dual functional as compared with 90.4% (95% CI: 89.3, 91.4) and 91.4% (95% CI: 90.2, 92.5) of (non-Hispanic) White women and men, respectively. +4 more findings
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2023-07-08
Novel aspects of the phosphorylation and structure of pathological tau: implications for tauopathy biomarkers
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers FEBS open bio
Key finding: Recent advances in analytical techniques revealed the details of the biochemical and structural biological differences of tau specific to each tauopathy. +1 more finding
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2023-07-08
Physical activity, biomarkers of brain pathologies and dementia risk: Results from the Memento clinical cohort
59/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: Physical activity moderated the association between MTA and plasma Aβ42/40 level and increased dementia risk. +4 more findings
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2023-07-08
AD-BERT: Using pre-trained language model to predict the progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of biomedical informatics
Key finding: The use of EHRs for AD-related research is promising, and AD-BERT shows superior predictive performance in modeling MCI-to-AD progression prediction.
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2023-07-08
Incidence and Risk Factors of Falls Among Older People in Nursing Homes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
67/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Key finding: The results from our meta-analysis suggest that the incidence of falls of older adults living in nursing homes is high, and the risk factors for falls are various. +1 more finding
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2023-07-08
Anxiety adds the risk of cognitive progression and is associated with axon/synapse degeneration among cognitively unimpaired older adults
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies EBioMedicine
Key finding: Mental symptoms have been shown to be associated with dementia. +3 more findings
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