The impact of demographic, clinical, genetic, and imaging variables on tau PET status.
Title | The impact of demographic, clinical, genetic, and imaging variables on tau PET status. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Authors | Ossenkoppele R, Leuzy A, Cho H, Sudre CH, Strandberg O, Smith R, Palmqvist S, Mattsson-Carlgren N, Olsson T, Jögi J, Stormrud E, Ryu YHoon, Choi JYong, Boxer AL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Miller BL, Soleimani-Meigooni D, Iaccarino L, La Joie R, Borroni E, Klein G, Pontecorvo MJ, Devous MD, Villeneuve S, Lyoo CHyoung, Rabinovici GD, Hansson O |
Corporate Authors | Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, PREVENT-AD Research Group |
Journal | Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging |
Date Published | 2020 Nov 19 |
ISSN | 1619-7089 |
Abstract | 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 [F]flortaucipir (n = 1944) or [F]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. |
DOI | 10.1007/s00259-020-05099-w |
Alternate Journal | Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging |
PubMed ID | 33215319 |
Grant List | P30 AG062422 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States R01 NS050915 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States U01 AG024904 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States |