Journal
BRAIN
Volume 139, Issue -, Pages 1226-1236Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww015
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; CSF A beta 42; PET; amyloid-beta; florbetapir
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- Strategic Research Area MultiPark (Multidisciplinary Research in Parkinson's disease) at Lund University
- European Research Council
- Swedish Research Council
- Crafoord Foundation
- Swedish Brain Foundation
- Skane University Hospital Foundation
- Swedish Alzheimer Association
- Swedish federal government under the ALF agreement
- Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) (National Institutes of Health) [U01 AG024904]
- DOD ADNI (Department of Defense) [W81XWH-12-2-0012]
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Cerebral accumulation of amyloid-beta is thought to be the starting mechanism in Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid-beta can be detected by analysis of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta(42) or amyloid positron emission tomography, but it is unknown if any of the methods can identify an abnormal amyloid accumulation prior to the other. Our aim was to determine whether cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta(42) change before amyloid PET during preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease. We included 437 non-demented subjects from the prospective, longitudinal Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study. All underwent F-18-florbetapir positron emission tomography and cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta(42) analysis at baseline and at least one additional positron emission tomography after a mean follow-up of 2.1 years (range 1.1-4.4 years). Group classifications were based on normal and abnormal cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography results at baseline. We found that cases with isolated abnormal cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta and normal positron emission tomography at baseline accumulated amyloid with a mean rate of 1.2%/year, which was similar to the rate in cases with both abnormal cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography (1.2%/year, P = 0.86). The mean accumulation rate of those with isolated abnormal cerebrospinal fluid was more than three times that of those with both normal cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography (0.35%/year, P = 0.018). The group differences were similar when analysing yearly change in standardized uptake value ratio of florbetapir instead of percentage change. Those with both abnormal cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography deteriorated more in memory and hippocampal volume compared with the other groups (P < 0.001), indicating that they were closer to Alzheimer's disease dementia. The results were replicated after adjustments of different factors and when using different cut-offs for amyloid-beta abnormality including a positron emission tomography classification based on the florbetapir uptake in regions where the initial amyloid-beta accumulation occurs in Alzheimer's disease. This is the first study to show that individuals who have abnormal cerebrospinal amyloid-beta(42) but normal amyloid-beta positron emission tomography have an increased cortical amyloid-beta accumulation rate similar to those with both abnormal cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography and higher rate than subjects where both modalities are normal. The results indicate that cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta(42) becomes abnormal in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease, before amyloid positron emission tomography and before neurodegeneration starts.
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