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Hippocampal Volume Loss, Brain Amyloid Accumulation, and APOE Status in Cognitively Intact Elderly Subjects

Published inNeurodegenerative Diseases, vol. 19, no. 3-4, p. 139-147
Publication date2019
Abstract

Hippocampal volume loss (HVL), PET-documented brain amyloid accumulation, and APOE-ε4 status are predictive biomarkers of the transition from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease (AD). In asymptomatic cases, the role of these biomarkers remains ambiguous. In contrast to the idea that HVL occurs in late phases of neurodegeneration, recent contributions indicate that it might occur before abnormal amyloid PET occurrence in elderly subjects and that its severity could be only marginally related to APOE variants. Using a longitudinal design, we examined the determinants of HVL in our sample, i.e., brain amyloid burden and the presence of APOE-ε4, and made a longitudinal assessment of cognitive functions.

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides/metabolism
  • Apolipoprotein E4/genetics
  • Brain/diagnostic imaging/metabolism
  • Cognitive Aging/physiology/psychology
  • Female
  • Hippocampus/diagnostic imaging/pathology
  • Humans
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
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HALLER, Sven et al. Hippocampal Volume Loss, Brain Amyloid Accumulation, and APOE Status in Cognitively Intact Elderly Subjects. In: Neurodegenerative Diseases, 2019, vol. 19, n° 3-4, p. 139–147. doi: 10.1159/000504302
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