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ReviewAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2025

Clinical use of biomarkers in the era of Alzheimer's disease treatments.

Lawren VandeVrede, Suzanne E Schindler

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Review in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Usage and positivity rates of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in a memory clinic.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  15. Rates of clinical progression according to biological Alzheimer's disease stages.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  16. Performance of novel tau antibodies across multiple modalities for Alzheimer's disease assessment.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  17. Diagnostic performance of plasma p-tau217 and Aβ42/40 biomarkers in the outpatient memory clinic.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  20. Clinical use of biomarkers in the era of Alzheimer's disease treatments.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lawren VandeVredeDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Suzanne E SchindlerDepartment of Neurology and the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Funding

Staging Alzheimer disease with blood-based biomarkersR01AG070941 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SCHINDLER, SUZANNE ELIZABETH · 2021 to 2025
$4.3M
Validation of Novel Plasma Biomarkers for Mixed Etiology DementiaK23AG073514 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI VANDEVREDE, LAWREN · 2021 to 2025
$1.0M
Barnes-Jewish Hospital FoundationNIA NIH HHS K23 AG073514NIA NIH HHS K23AG073514NIA NIH HHS R01 AG070941NIA NIH HHS R01AG070941
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the advent of treatments that specifically target Alzheimer's disease brain pathology, biomarker tests will become an increasingly important part of the routine clinical evaluation of cognitive impairment and guide clinical decision making. Clinicians must ensure they are using accurate and well-validated biomarker tests and select the most appropriate testing modality for each patient based on individual and practical considerations. The interpretation of test results may be complex and depends on the pre-test probability and test-specific factors. Biomarker results must be presented and discussed with patients in a process that is sensitive to the major implications of the results and is carefully connected to diagnosis, prognosis, and management. Advances in treatments for Alzheimer's disease will likely require non-dementia specialists to use biomarkers, necessitating major educational efforts. In the new era of Alzheimer's disease treatments, biomarkers are essential tools that will be integrated into all aspects of dementia diagnosis and care.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersHumansBiomarkersAlzheimer's diseaseamyloidbiomarkersbloodcerebrospinal fluiddementiadiagnosisdisclosurepositron emission tomographytreatment

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PMID39740074
PMCPMC11775455

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