Multimorbidity and neuroimaging biomarkers among cognitively normal persons
Document Type
Article
Abstract
© 2016 American Academy of Neurology. Objective: To assess the cross-sectional association between multimorbidity and imaging biomarkers of brain pathology in the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA). Methods: The study consisted of 1,449 MCSA participants who were cognitively normal at the time of MRI. A subset of the participants also had 11C-Pittsburgh compound B (n 5 689) and 18fluorodeoxyglucose (n 5 688) PET scans available. Information on multimorbidity (defined as 2 chronic conditions) in the 5 years prior to the first imaging study was captured from the medical record using ICD-9 codes for chronic conditions and the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records linkage system. The cross-sectional association of multimorbidity and imaging biomarkers was examined using logistic and linear regression models. Results: Among 1,449 cognitively normal participants (mean age 79 years; 50.9% men), 85.4% had multimorbidity (2 chronic conditions). Multimorbidity and severe multimorbidity (4 chronic conditions) were associated with abnormal Alzheimer disease (AD) signature meta-region of interest (meta-ROI) 18F-FDG hypometabolism (odds ratio [OR] 2.03; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.10-3.77 and OR 2.22; 95% CI 1.18-4.16, respectively), and with abnormal AD signature MRI cortical thickness (OR 1.53; 95% CI 1.09-2.16 and OR 1.76; 95% CI 1.24-2.51, respectively), but was not associated with amyloid accumulation. Conclusions: Multimorbidity was associated with brain pathology through mechanisms independent of amyloid deposition and such neuronal injury and pathology was present before any symptomatic evidence of cognitive impairment. Longitudinal follow-up will provide insights into potential causal associations of multimorbidity with changes in brain pathology.
Publication Date
5-31-2016
Publication Title
Neurology
ISSN
00283878
Volume
86
Issue
22
First Page
2077
Last Page
2084
PubMed ID
27164657
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1212/WNL.0000000000002624
Recommended Citation
Vassilaki, Maria; Aakre, Jeremiah A.; Mielke, Michelle M.; Geda, Yonas E.; Kremers, Walter K.; Alhurani, Rabe E.; Machulda, Mary M.; Knopman, David S.; Petersen, Ronald C.; Lowe, Val J.; Jack, Clifford R.; and Roberts, Rosebud O., "Multimorbidity and neuroimaging biomarkers among cognitively normal persons" (2016). Neurology. 370.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurology/370