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  1. Quantification of [18 F]florbetaben amyloid-PET imaging in a mixed memory clinic population: The ABIDE project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-07 Brain scans and imaging

    CL was associated with syndromic (F = 4.42, p = 0.014) and etiological diagnosis (F = -12.66, p < 0.001), with Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients showing the highest amyloid burden (62.9 ± 27.5), followed by dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (25.3 ± 35.5) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) (16.7 ± 24.5), and finally frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD) (5.0 ± 17.22, t = -12.66, p < 0.001).

  2. Plasma Phosphorylated-tau181 Is a Predictor of Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment: A Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2022-04-29 Biomarkers

    Of 136 patients, 40 and 50 patients developed PSCI at 3 and 12 months after stroke, respectively.

  3. P-tau217 in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2022-03-24 Biomarkers

    Current evidence shows that plasma p-tau217 is a sensitive maker of the clinical manifestation and progression of Alzheimer's disease and of pathological changes associated with this condition, including amyloid accumulation, tau burden, brain atrophy and physical degradation.

  4. Diagnostic Accuracy of Blood-Based Biomarker Panels: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-03-11 Biomarkers

    Seventy-six articles met the inclusion criteria for systematic review.

  5. Association between CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and neuropsychiatric symptoms: Mayo Clinic Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-09 Tau biomarkers

    Lower CSF Aβ42, and higher t-tau/Aβ42 and p-tau/Aβ42 ratios were associated with BDI-II and BAI total scores, clinical depression (BDI-II ≥ 13), and clinical anxiety (BAI ≥ 10), as well as NPI-Q-assessed anxiety, apathy, and nighttime behavior.

  6. Association of CSF, Plasma, and Imaging Markers of Neurodegeneration With Clinical Progression in People With Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-02 Biomarkers

    We included 401 individuals (61±9 years, 42% female, MMSE 28 ± 2, vascular comorbidities 8%-19%).

  7. Comparison of CSF neurofilament light chain, neurogranin, and tau to MRI markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Higher CSF NfL was associated with decreasing microstructural integrity and WMH.

  8. Longitudinal evaluation of the natural history of amyloid-β in plasma and brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Brain communications 2020-04-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma amyloid-β peptide concentration has recently been shown to have high accuracy to predict amyloid-β plaque burden in the brain.

  9. Incremental value of biomarker combinations to predict progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-10-10 Biomarkers

    ROC curves of the five best two-, three-, and four-parameter combinations were analyzed for significant superiority by a bootstrapping wrapper around a support vector machine with linear kernel.

  10. The Alzheimer's Association Global Biomarker Standardization Consortium (GBSC) plasma phospho-tau Round Robin study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-02-05 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 showed larger fold-changes and better accuracy for detecting AD pathology in symptomatic individuals, with greater cross-platform agreement than other p-tau variants.

  11. Combining plasma Aβ and p-tau217 improves detection of brain amyloid in non-demented elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-05-23 Biomarkers

    Aβ-PET was abnormal in 81 participants from J-TRC and 71 participants from BioFINDER.

  12. Plasma phosphorylated tau-217 exhibits sex-specific prognostication of cognitive decline and brain atrophy in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-08-28 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 may capture earlier Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related cognitive and brain atrophy hallmarks in females compared to males, possibly reflective of increased susceptibility to AD pathophysiology.

  13. Quantitative amyloid PET in Alzheimer's disease: the AMYPAD prognostic and natural history study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-04-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Primary include several amyloid PET measurements (Centiloid, SUVr, BPND , R1 ), and secondary are their changes from baseline, relationship to other amyloid markers (cerebrospinal fluid and visual assessment), and predictive value of AD-related decline.

  14. Amyloid duration is associated with preclinical cognitive decline and tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-02-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid chronicity provides unique information about cognitive decline and neurofibrillary tangle development and may be useful to investigate preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

  15. Plasma amyloid β 40/42 ratio predicts cerebral amyloidosis in cognitively normal individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-05-18 Digital health tools

    Our results encourage an independent validation cohort study to confirm the indication that the plasma Aβ 1-40 /Aβ 1-42 ratio, assessed via Simoa, may improve future standard of care and clinical trial design.

  16. The value of subtraction MRI in detection of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with oedema or effusion in Alzheimer's patients: An interobserver study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. European radiology 2017-09-27 Treatments

    Subtraction MRI has potential as a visual aid increasing the sensitivity of ARIA-E assessment.

  17. Blood-based circular RNAs for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Nature medicine 2026-07-01 Biomarkers

    Detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) before the development of clinical symptoms is critical for enabling the use of new treatments.

  18. Plasma biomarker trajectories across Alzheimer's clinical onset: a 17-year prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-04-22 Biomarkers

    In participants who progressed to amyloid-positive MCI, plasma p-tau181/Aβ42 and GFAP diverged from stable controls earliest (about 13 and 12 years before symptom onset, respectively), followed by Aβ42/Aβ40, p-tau181, and NfL, all of which became abnormal before symptom onset.

  19. Implementing plasma p-tau217 and cognitive testing for Alzheimer's screening in low-education populations in central China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-03 Biomarkers

    MES-defined cognitive impairment (≤-2 standard deviation [SD] deviation after adjustment for demographics) was identified in 12.4% of participants.

  20. We included 400 middle-aged CU participants, of whom 135 (33.8%) were CSF Aβ-positive.

  21. Alpha synuclein co-pathology is associated with accelerated amyloid-driven tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-03-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    αSyn SAA positivity was more common in Aβ + vs. Aβ- subjects and increased with clinical severity (p < 0.001).

  22. Clinical criteria for limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-01-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    Limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-NC) is highly prevalent in late life and a common co-pathology with Alzheimer's disease neuropathologic change (ADNC).

  23. Association of CSF α-synuclein seed amplification assay positivity with disease progression and cognitive decline: A longitudinal Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    SAA+ individuals had faster cognitive decline than SAA-, notably in mild cognitive impairment, and presented with earlier symptom onset.

  24. Associations between misfolded alpha-synuclein aggregates and Alzheimer's disease pathology in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-11 Brain tissue and pathology

    Across cohorts, the main biomarker associated with α-synuclein positivity at baseline was higher levels of Aβ pathology (all p values ≤ 0.02), but not tau.

  25. Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative disease biomarkers in blood predict brain atrophy and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-04-30 Biomarkers

    Brain volume analyses included 622 participants (mean age ± SD: 70.9 ± 10.2) with an average of 3.3 MRI scans over 4.7 years.

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