Journal
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
Volume 23, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101904
Keywords
Atrophy; Brain ageing; MRI; Normative values; Sex differences
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- Welsh Assembly Government
- British Heart Foundation
- Diabetes UK
- Wellcome Trust [206330/Z/17/Z, 203139/Z/16/Z]
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
- MRC [MR/P00878X/1, 1947385] Funding Source: UKRI
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Measurement of hippocampal volume has proven useful to diagnose and track progression in several brain disorders, most notably in Alzheimer's disease (AD). For example, an objective evaluation of a patient's hippocampal volume status may provide important information that can assist diagnosis or risk stratification of AD. However, clinicians and researchers require access to age-related normative percentiles to reliably categorise a patient's hippocampal volume as being pathologically small. Here we analysed effects of age, sex, and hemisphere on the hippocampus and neighbouring temporal lobe volumes, in 19,793 generally healthy participants in the UK Biobank. A key finding of the current study is a significant acceleration in the rate of hippocampal volume loss in middle age, more pronounced in females than in males. In this report, we provide normative values for hippocampal and total grey matter volume as a function of age for reference in clinical and research settings. These normative values may be used in combination with our online, automated percentile estimation tool to provide a rapid, objective evaluation of an individual's hippocampal volume status. The data provide a large-scale normative database to facilitate easy age-adjusted determination of where an individual hippocampal and temporal lobe volume lies within the normal distribution.
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