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  1. Plasma p-Tau217 improves diagnostic accuracy and clinician confidence in cognitive disorder classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) 2026-01-20 Biomarkers

    The clinical utility of plasma phosphorylated tau at threonine 217 (p-tau217) levels as a diagnostic tool for cognitive disorders in real-world settings remains uncertain.

  2. Plasma neurofilament light chain as a predictor of multiple system atrophy in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2025-12-08 Biomarkers

    Over 3.7 years, 22 patients phenoconverted (7 multiple system atrophy [MSA]; 15 Lewy body diseases [LBDs]).

  3. Diagnostic utility of plasma p-tau217 differs by Alzheimer's disease tau-based subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-11-26 Biomarkers

    Four subtypes were identified: limbic, medial temporal lobe (MTL) sparing, posterior, and lateral temporal (l temporal).

  4. Combining a computerized cognitive test with serum biomarkers improves detection of early-onset neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-10-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BackgroundEarly diagnosis of early-onset dementia (EOD) is often challenging.

  5. Multivariate models using NULISAseq and plasma p-tau217 for staging Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    Using a panel of biomarkers was significantly better at predicting disease stage compared with p-tau217 alone; however, the difference was dependent upon p-tau217 assay.

  6. Optimizing timing and cost-effective use of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-08-20 Biomarkers

    When benchmarked against amyloid PET, plasma biomarker-based stratification achieves an optimal balance between diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness.

  7. CHIT1 and DDAH1 levels relate to amyloid-related imaging abnormalities risk profile in Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-07-22 Treatments

    Ninety-four proteins differentiated in the high-risk group compared to low-risk (p < 0.05), none surviving FDR correction.

  8. Impact of racialization on neuroimaging and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-07 Biomarkers

    Both Mann-Whitney tests and ANCOVA found significant differences between groups racialized as AA or NWH with respect to global 11[C]-Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR), cortical thickness values, p-tau181, and p-tau231 values (p < 0.05).

  9. Genetic risk and plasma biomarkers of dementia with Lewy bodies in a Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2025-05-15 Biomarkers

    Genetic investigations and associations with plasma biomarkers of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in East Asian populations are lacking.

  10. The performance of plasma p-tau217 in Black middle-aged and older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-05 Biomarkers

    Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and amyloid- and tau-PET-positive status demonstrated higher p-tau217.

  11. LATE-NC Stage 3: a diagnostic rubric to differentiate severe LATE-NC from FTLD-TDP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2025-04-28 Brain tissue and pathology

    A diagnostic rubric is required to distinguish between limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-NC) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions (FTLD-TDP).

  12. Plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarker relationships with incident abnormal amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-02 Biomarkers

    Interquartile range differences in amyloid beta 42/40, percent phosphorylated tau 217 (%p-tau217), and Amyloid Probability Score 2 were associated with 1.29 (P = 0.09), 1.38 (P < 0.001), and 1.20 (P = 0.05) increases, respectively, in the hazard of progression from A- to A+ and 0.27 (P = 0.16), 0.50 (P = 0.007), and 0.28 (P = 0.15) Centiloid/year increases, respectively, in annual rate of amyloid PET change.

  13. Peripheral risk factors and their role in biomarker-based screening for dementia in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-12 Biomarkers

    Besides age and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), significant associations were found between plasma biomarkers and clusters related to hemoglobin, red blood cell distribution, and inflammation.

  14. Predicting continuous amyloid PET values with CSF tau phosphorylation occupancies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Tau biomarkers

    Concentration of CSF pT217/T217 had low predictive error (average error: 13%), but also a low predictive range (ceiling 63 Centiloids).

  15. Florbetaben amyloid PET acquisition time: Influence on Centiloids and interpretation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-04 Brain scans and imaging

    CL values increased significantly over the scan using the whole cerebellum, cerebellar gray matter, and brainstem as reference regions, particularly in amyloid-positive individuals.

  16. Data-driven decomposition and staging of flortaucipir uptake in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-29 Brain scans and imaging

    We found eight flortaucipir covariance patterns which were reproducible and overlapped with relevant gene expression maps.

  17. Relationship of plasma biomarkers to digital cognitive tests in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-04-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings show how online testing can now be deployed in patients with AD to measure cognitive function effectively and related to blood biomarkers of the disease.

  18. Plasma biomarkers for predicting the development of dementia in a community-dwelling older Japanese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2024-04-12 Biomarkers

    During the follow-up, 151 participants developed dementia, of whom 108 had Alzheimer disease (AD) and 43 non-Alzheimer dementia (non-AD).

  19. Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and kidney function in normal and cognitively impaired older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-04-12 Tau biomarkers

    Lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was associated with lower amyloid beta (Aβ)42/tau ratio (p < 0.0001) and Aβ42 (p = 0.002) and higher tau (p < 0.0001) and p-tau (p = 0.0002).

  20. Older adults with reduced cerebrovascular reactivity exhibit high white matter hyperintensity burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-03-30 Vascular contributions

    Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) deficits may contribute to small vessel disease, such as white matter hyperintensities (WMH).

  21. The potential of blood neurofilament light as a marker of neurodegeneration for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2024-01-01 Biomarkers

    Over the past several years, there has been a surge in blood biomarker studies examining the value of plasma or serum neurofilament light (NfL) as a biomarker of neurodegeneration for Alzheimer's disease.

  22. Biological variation estimates of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers in healthy individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-20 Biomarkers

    BV estimates for AD plasma biomarkers can potentially refine their clinical and research interpretation.

  23. High diagnostic performance of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid beta-synuclein for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2023-08-08 Biomarkers

    Beta-synuclein is a promising cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarker of synaptic damage.

  24. Mass spectrometric simultaneous quantification of tau species in plasma shows differential associations with amyloid and tau pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-04-27 Biomarkers

    Blood phosphorylated tau (p-tau) biomarkers, at differing sites, demonstrate high accuracy to detect Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. CSF tau phosphorylation occupancies at T217 and T205 represent improved biomarkers of amyloid and tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-03-13 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β peptide (Aβ)42/Aβ40 and the concentration of tau phosphorylated at site 181 (p-tau181) are well-established biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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