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  1. Predictive value of plasma p-tau217 for Alzheimer's dementia compared to other blood-based biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2026-07-16 Biomarkers

    Phosphorylated-tau (p-tau217) is a promising blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's dementia (AD) in clinical settings.

  2. Combining CSF MTBR-tau243 and plasma pTau217 ratio enhances the prediction of continuous regional tau PET burden in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Plasma pTau217R matched CSF eMTBR-tau243 and outperformed MTBR-tau243.

  3. Lecanemab treatment for Alzheimer's Disease of varying severities and associated plasma biomarkers monitoring: A multi-center real-world study in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10-01 Treatments

    These findings support the short-term efficacy and safety of Lecanemab in early AD and highlight plasma biomarkers as a treatment-responsive biomarker.

  4. Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using plasma biomarkers adjusted to clinical probability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Nature aging 2024-11-12 Biomarkers

    Recently approved anti-amyloid immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) require evidence of amyloid-β pathology from positron emission tomography (PET) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) before initiating treatment.

  5. Increasing participant diversity in AD research: Plans for digital screening, blood testing, and a community-engaged approach in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-10-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) aims to validate biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials.

  6. Sex-specific brain reserve and progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-10 Risk factors

    Females with MCI exhibited greater baseline GMV than males primarily in the thalamus, caudate, cerebellum, postcentral gyrus, and middle cingulate gyrus, with no differences at the AD stage.

  7. Heterogeneity in plasma p-tau217 response and its association with cognitive trajectories under lecanemab treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-08 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 levels decreased significantly from 3 months, with the greatest decline between 3 and 6 months, followed by a plateau.

  8. Plasma Amyloid-β 1-40 and Postoperative Delirium After Cardiac Surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA network open 2026-07-01 Biomarkers

    Of 504 enrolled patients, 491 completed POD assessment (mean [SD] age, 68.4 [8.3] years; 385 [78.4%] male), of whom 106 (21.6%) developed POD.

  9. APOE ɛ4 carriership determines a faster plasma p-tau217 progression in Aβ-positive individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Biomarkers

    In TRIAD, ALZpath p-tau217 (β = 0.45, p = 0.02) and p-tau217+Janssen (β = 0.67, p = 0.002), and in ADNI p-tau217 (β = 0.90, p = 0.002) increased faster in A+E4+.

  10. Retinal microvasculature and incident dementia over 10 years: The Three-City-Alienor cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-10-22 Brain scans and imaging

    One hundred twenty-eight participants (21.9%) developed dementia over a median of 7.1 years.

  11. Data-driven neuropathological staging and subtyping of TDP-43 proteinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-07-03 Brain tissue and pathology

    In LATE-NC individuals, progression along data-driven stages was positively associated with age, but negatively associated with age in individuals with FTLD-TDP.

  12. Robustness of CSF Aβ42/40 and Aβ42/P-tau181 measured using fully automated immunoassays to detect AD-related outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-01-21 Biomarkers

    For Aβ42/Aβ40, cutoffs across cohorts were <0.059 (BioFINDER), <0.057 (ADNI), and <0.058 (UCSF).

  13. Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy: Medical and Pathologic Factors Associated With Comorbid Hippocampal Sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    A total of 408 participants were included (n = 221 were LATE-NC+/HS-, n = 145 were LATE-NC+/HS+, and n = 42 were LATE-NC-/HS+).

  14. The application of optical coherence tomography angiography in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-03-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Fourteen studies assessing OCT-A in preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment, or AD were included.

  15. Higher phosphorylated tau levels predict cognitive decline and amyloid-related imaging abnormalities during lecanemab treatment: clinical practice data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-11-24 Treatments

    Lecanemab was generally well tolerated by most patients with early AD and treatment appeared to be more effective and safer in patients with low CSF-ptau181 levels.

  16. Timing of Changes in Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarkers as Assessed by Amyloid and Tau PET Clocks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2025-06-20 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that the plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 may be useful in identifying individuals with very low levels of amyloid pathology, whereas p-tau, GFAP, and NfL may be useful in staging disease progression.

  17. Performance of a fully-automated Lumipulse plasma phospho-tau181 assay for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-12 Biomarkers

    This fully-automated and available blood-based biomarker assay therefore may be useful for early detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment monitoring of AD.

  18. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Diagnostic Performance of Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2026-08-14 Biomarkers

    Combining plasma p-tau with Aβ42 or the Aβ42/40 ratio reduced the intermediate zone.

  19. Plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and Aβ42 predict amyloid PET positivity in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-05-20 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 showed the strongest individual association with Aβ PET status (area under the curve [AUC], 0.85).

  20. Association between Plasma P-tau217 and Alzheimer's Copathology and Cognitive Decline in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2026-03-18 Biomarkers

    Neuropathology cases included 46 Parkinson's disease and 10 dementia with Lewy bodies, and clinical cases included 173 Parkinson's disease, and 64 controls.

  21. Using retinal diagnostics as a biomarker for neurodegenerative diseases: protocol for a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. BMJ open 2025-11-13 Brain scans and imaging

    A narrative synthesis approach will be used to analyse the results, with meta-analysis performed if there is sufficient data.

  22. Preclinical dementia rating scores are associated with plasma phosphorylated tau-217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-09-07 Biomarkers

    Higher baseline pTau217 levels were associated with faster functional (QDRS) and cognitive (PACC3) decline.

  23. Plasma tau biomarkers for biological staging of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature aging 2025-08-22 Biomarkers

    A blood biomarker-based staging system for Alzheimer's disease (AD) could improve the diagnosis, prognosis and identification of individuals most likely to benefit from specific therapies.

  24. Misfolded α-synuclein co-occurrence with Alzheimer's disease proteinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Syn positivity (synSAA+) co-occurred with T (in synSAA+ vs. synSAA-, 36% vs. 20% T+; Pp = 0.011) and with cognitive impairment (10% vs. 7% mild cognitive impairment; 10% vs. 0% dementia; p = 0.00050). synSAA+ participants' cognitive performance declined ≈ 40% faster than synSAA- for Digit Symbol Substitution, but not other tests.

  25. Plasma phosphorylated tau and neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-12-28 Biomarkers

    Hallucinations, delusions, and depression were more common in DLB than in AD and, in a subgroup with longitudinal follow-up, persistent hallucinations and NPSs were associated with lower p-tau181 and p-tau231 in DLB.

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