期刊
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
卷 77, 期 9, 页码 1810-1818出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glab218
关键词
Brain activity; Health; Imaging; MRI; PET
资金
- Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging
This study found that a higher number of chronic diseases is associated with changes in brain activity, indicating a link between health condition and aging brain function.
Background Most older adults live with multiple chronic disease conditions, yet the effect of multiple diseases on brain function remains unclear. Methods We examine the relationship between disease multimorbidity and brain activity using regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) O-15-water PET scans from 97 cognitively normal participants (mean baseline age 76.5) in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). Multimorbidity index scores, generated from the presence of 13 health conditions, were correlated with PET data at baseline and in longitudinal change (n = 74) over 5.05 (2.74 SD) years. Results At baseline, voxel-based analysis showed that higher multimorbidity scores were associated with lower relative activity in orbitofrontal, superior frontal, temporal pole and parahippocampal regions, and greater activity in lateral temporal, occipital, and cerebellar regions. Examination of the individual health conditions comprising the index score showed hypertension and chronic kidney disease individually contributed to the overall multimorbidity pattern of altered activity. Longitudinally, both increases and decreases in activity were seen in relation to increasing multimorbidity over time. These associations were identified in orbitofrontal, lateral temporal, brainstem, and cerebellar areas. Conclusion Together, these results show that greater multimorbidity is associated with widespread areas of altered brain activity, supporting a link between health and changes in aging brain function.
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