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  1. Retinal Functional and Structural Neural Indices: Potential Biomarkers for the Monitoring of Cerebral Neurodegeneration: The Maastricht Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Prevention and risk

    Most risk factors under study (i.e., hyperglycemia, unhealthy diet, lower cardiorespiratory fitness, smoking, alcohol consumption, and hypertension) were significantly associated with lower retinal sensitivity and lower RNFL thickness.

  2. Temporal order of clinical and biomarker changes in familial frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature medicine 2022-09-22 Biomarkers

    Unlike familial Alzheimer's disease, we have been unable to accurately predict symptom onset in presymptomatic familial frontotemporal dementia (f-FTD) mutation carriers, which is a major hurdle to designing disease prevention trials.

  3. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light chain for the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2021-12-10 Biomarkers

    Unlike pNfL, which was increased similarly in both clinical groups, pGFAP was increased in FTD but lower than in AD (all P < 0.01).

  4. Alzheimer's disease related biomarkers in bipolar disorder - A longitudinal one-year case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2021-10-31 Biomarkers

    Levels of CSF Aβ42 decreased in patients with BD who had an episode during follow-up (BD-E) (N = 22) compared to patients without an episode (BD-NE) (N = 25) during follow-up (P = 0.002).

  5. Non-beta-amyloid/tau cerebrospinal fluid markers inform staging and progression in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-09-25 Tau biomarkers

    Three biomarkers were identified to differ among the AD stages, including neurofilament light chain (NfL; p < 0.001), fatty acid binding protein 3 (Fabp3; p < 0.001), and interleukin (IL)-10 (p = 0.033).

  6. Prevalence of Amyloid Positron Emission Tomographic Positivity in Poststroke Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Stroke 2016-08-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Thirty-eight (68%) patients who consented to PET imaging had PS-MCI.

  7. Racial and ethnic differences in plasma biomarker eligibility for a preclinical Alzheimer's disease trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-17 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that prevalence of brain amyloid pathology differed, but that eligibility based on plasma was equally effective across racial and ethnic group members.

  8. A novel ultrasensitive assay for plasma p-tau217: Performance in individuals with subjective cognitive decline and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-17 Biomarkers

    UGOT p-tau217 can be an easily accessible and efficient way to screen and monitor patients with suspected AD pathophysiology, even in the early stages of the continuum.

  9. Effect of renal function on the diagnostic performance of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-03-15 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/40 was a robust biomarker for AD which was not affected by renal function.

  10. Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease-type neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Biomarkers

    Recent studies suggest that blood total-tau originates principally from peripheral, non-brain sources.

  11. A Longitudinal Study of Plasma pTau181 in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Lewy Bodies and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2022-03-23 Biomarkers

    One hundred forty-six subjects (56 probable MCI-LB, 22 possible MCI-LB, 44 MCI-AD, and 24 controls) were reviewed for up to 5.7 years.

  12. Association of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) with neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease and vascular pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-02-28 Biomarkers

    GFAP was associated with amyloid and tau PET in multivariable models.

  13. Population-based blood screening for preclinical Alzheimer's disease in a British birth cohort at age 70

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-03-01 Biomarkers

    Mass spectrometry plasma measures performed significantly better than any other measure (amyloid-β1-42/1-40: 0.817; 0.770-0.864 and amyloid-β composite: 0.820; 0.775-0.866).

  14. The diagnostic and prognostic capabilities of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-01-25 Biomarkers

    P-tau181 detected AD at MCI and dementia stages and was strongly associated with cognitive decline and gray matter loss.

  15. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein is elevated in cognitively normal older adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-01-11 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an astrocytic cytoskeletal protein, can be measured in blood samples, and has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Longitudinal Association of Amyloid Beta and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2018-01-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Higher amyloid beta burden was associated with increasing anxious-depressive symptoms over time in cognitively normal older individuals.

  17. Neurofilament light chain: a biomarker for genetic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2016-07-01 Biomarkers

    NfL in both serum and CSF has the potential to serve as a biomarker for clinical disease onset and has a prognostic value in genetic FTD.

  18. Microvascular network alterations in the retina of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with AD have altered microvascular network in the retina (narrower retinal venules and a sparser and more tortuous retinal vessels) compared with matched nondemented controls.

  19. CSF amyloid-beta and tau proteins, and cognitive performance, in early and untreated Parkinson's disease: the Norwegian ParkWest study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2010-06-14 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ levels are altered in a subset of patients with early PD and relate to memory impairment.

  20. Effect of statins on Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2006-12-01 Biomarkers

    Statins may modulate the phosphorylation of tau in humans and this effect may depend on the CNS availability of the statin.

  21. Elecsys pT181p immunoassay: Clinical performance for ruling out amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-09-08 Biomarkers

    At a care setting-agnostic cutoff of 0.934 pg/ml, high negative predictive value (NPV) (93.8%) and acceptable positive predictive value (PPV) (46.6%) were observed against amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET).

  22. Optimized plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 cutoffs enhance detection of pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease across diverse participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-08 Biomarkers

    Among 191 participants (57 Black, 46 Hispanic White, 88 non-Hispanic White), age-adjusted plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 performed similarly in detecting amyloid-positive individuals (≥ 25 Centiloids), regardless of race/ethnicity.

  23. Multicenter validation of plasma p-tau217/ amyloid beta 1-42 ratio in symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-07 Biomarkers

    Amyloid status was determined by CSF in 347 patients (189 positive [54.5%]) and by PET imaging in 152 patients (66 positive [43.4%]).

  24. Physical activity, aerobic fitness, and AD blood biomarkers: The IGNITE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-05 Biomarkers

    Greater MVPA (β = -0.107; p = 0.013) and CRF (β = -0.114; p = 0.027) were associated with lower NfL, but not Aβ PET, p-tau217, Aβ1-42/1-40, or GFAP.

  25. Plasma pTau 217/β-amyloid 1-42 ratio for enhanced accuracy and reduced uncertainty in detecting amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2026-04-07 Biomarkers

    To improve clinical utility, a dual threshold approach was applied to maximize predictive values and positive likelihood ratios while minimizing the proportion of indeterminate results.

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