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SynthesisJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2017

A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies Which Measure Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers.

Emma Lawrence, Carolin Vegvari, Alison Ower, Christoforos Hadjichrysanthou, Frank De Wolf, Roy M Anderson

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. A seven-year longitudinal study of the Alzheimer's disease blood metabolome.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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  3. Brain and retina in Alzheimer's disease: Pathological intersections and estimates from imaging.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  12. Outcome measures for Alzheimer's disease: A global inter-societal Delphi consensus.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Emma LawrenceDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Carolin VegvariDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Alison OwerDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Christoforos HadjichrysanthouDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Frank De WolfDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Roy M AndersonDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease, with no effective treatment or cure. A gold standard therapy would be treatment to slow or halt disease progression; however, knowledge of causation in the early stages of AD is very limited. In order to determine effective endpoints for possible therapies, a number of quantitative surrogate markers of disease progression have been suggested, including biochemical and imaging biomarkers. The dynamics of these various surrogate markers over time, particularly in relation to disease development, are, however, not well characterized. We reviewed the literature for studies that measured cerebrospinal fluid or plasma amyloid-β and tau, or took magnetic resonance image or fluorodeoxyglucose/Pittsburgh compound B-positron electron tomography scans, in longitudinal cohort studies. We summarized the properties of the major cohort studies in various countries, commonly used diagnosis methods and study designs. We have concluded that additional studies with repeat measures over time in a representative population cohort are needed to address the gap in knowledge of AD progression. Based on our analysis, we suggest directions in which research could move in order to advance our understanding of this complex disease, including repeat biomarker measurements, standardization and increased sample sizes.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersGlobal HealthHumansNeuroimagingBiomarkersAlzheimer’s diseasebiomarkercross-sectionaldementialongitudinal

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PMID28759968
PMCPMC5611893

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