The impact of demographic, clinical, genetic, and imaging variables on tau PET status

PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of amyloid-β (Aβ)+ patients with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are tau PET-negative, while some clinically diagnosed non-AD neurodegenerative disorder (non-AD) patients or cognitively unimpaired (CU) subjects are tau PET-positive. We investigated which demographic, clinical, genetic, and imaging variables contributed to tau PET status.

METHODS: We included 2338 participants (430 Aβ+ AD dementia, 381 Aβ+ MCI, 370 non-AD, and 1157 CU) who underwent [18F]flortaucipir (n = 1944) or [18F]RO948 (n = 719) PET. Tau PET positivity was determined in the entorhinal cortex, temporal meta-ROI, and Braak V-VI regions using previously established cutoffs. We performed bivariate binary logistic regression models with tau PET status (positive/negative) as dependent variable and age, sex, APOEε4, Aβ status (only in CU and non-AD analyses), MMSE, global white matter hyperintensities (WMH), and AD-signature cortical thickness as predictors. Additionally, we performed multivariable binary logistic regression models to account for all other predictors in the same model.

RESULTS: Tau PET positivity in the temporal meta-ROI was 88.6% for AD dementia, 46.5% for MCI, 9.5% for non-AD, and 6.1% for CU. Among Aβ+ participants with AD dementia and MCI, lower age, MMSE score, and AD-signature cortical thickness showed the strongest associations with tau PET positivity. In non-AD and CU participants, presence of Aβ was the strongest predictor of a positive tau PET scan.

CONCLUSION: We identified several demographic, clinical, and neurobiological factors that are important to explain the variance in tau PET retention observed across the AD pathological continuum, non-AD neurodegenerative disorders, and cognitively unimpaired persons.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:48

Enthalten in:

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging - 48(2021), 7 vom: 04. Juli, Seite 2245-2258

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ossenkoppele, Rik [VerfasserIn]
Leuzy, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Hanna [VerfasserIn]
Sudre, Carole H [VerfasserIn]
Strandberg, Olof [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Ruben [VerfasserIn]
Palmqvist, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Mattsson-Carlgren, Niklas [VerfasserIn]
Olsson, Tomas [VerfasserIn]
Jögi, Jonas [VerfasserIn]
Stormrud, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Ryu, Young Hoon [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Jae Yong [VerfasserIn]
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative [VerfasserIn]
PREVENT-AD research group [VerfasserIn]
Boxer, Adam L [VerfasserIn]
Gorno-Tempini, Maria L [VerfasserIn]
Miller, Bruce L [VerfasserIn]
Soleimani-Meigooni, David [VerfasserIn]
Iaccarino, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
La Joie, Renaud [VerfasserIn]
Borroni, Edilio [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Gregory [VerfasserIn]
Pontecorvo, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Devous, Michael D [VerfasserIn]
Villeneuve, Sylvia [VerfasserIn]
Lyoo, Chul Hyoung [VerfasserIn]
Rabinovici, Gil D [VerfasserIn]
Hansson, Oskar [VerfasserIn]

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Alzheimer’s disease
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Dementia
Journal Article
MCI
PET
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tau
Tau Proteins

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Date Completed 25.06.2021

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00259-020-05099-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31782404X