Study Partner Report of Apathy in Older Adults is Associated with AD Biomarkers: Findings from the Harvard Aging Brain Study.
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry
; 32(8): 909-919, 2024 08.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
We examined relationships between apathy (self and study-partner-reported) and markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in older adults.DESIGN:
The study utilized a well-characterized sample of participants from the Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS), a longitudinal cohort study. Participants were cognitively unimpaired without clinically significant neuropsychiatric symptoms at HABS baseline. The dependent variables, apathy evaluation scale-self (AES-S) and informant (AES-I), were administered cross-sectionally between years 6-9 and compared to the independent variables, amyloid and tau PET neuroimaging, from the same year.SETTING:
Community-dwelling participants assessed at research visits in an academic medical center.PARTICIPANTS:
Participants (n = 170) completed assessments within 1.5 years of their neuroimaging visit. At the time of apathy assessment, N = 156 were cognitively unimpaired and 14 had progressed to mild cognitive impairment (n = 8) or dementia (n = 6). MEASUREMENTS We utilized linear regression models to assess cross-sectional associations of AES-S and AES-I with AD PET imaging measures (beta-amyloid (Pittsburgh Compound B) and tau (Flortaucipir)), covarying for age, sex, education, and the time between PET scan-apathy assessment.RESULTS:
AES-I was significantly associated with beta-amyloid and temporal lobe tau, and the associations were retained after further adjusting for depressive symptoms. The associations between AES-S and AD biomarkers were not significant. In an exploratory subgroup analysis of cognitively unimpaired individuals with elevated Aß, we observed an association between AES-I and inferior temporal tau.CONCLUSIONS:
Study-partner-reported, but not self-reported, apathy in older adults is associated with AD pathology, and we observed this relationship starting from the preclinical stage. Our findings highlight the importance of collateral information in capturing AD-related apathy.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Envejecimiento
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Biomarcadores
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Proteínas tau
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Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones
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Apatía
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Enfermedad de Alzheimer
Límite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry
Asunto de la revista:
GERIATRIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Marruecos