OBJECTIVE: To compare PET imaging of tau pathology with CSF measurements (total tau and phosphorylated tau ) in terms of diagnostic performance for Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: We compared t-tau and p-tau and 18F-AV-1451 in 30 controls, 14 patients with prodromal AD, and 39 patients with Alzheimerdementia, recruited from the Swedish BioFINDER study. All

INTRODUCTION: We studied whether fully automated Elecsys cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) immunoassay results were concordant with positron emission tomography (PET) and predicted clinical progression, even with cutoffs established in an independent cohort. METHODS: Cutoffs for Elecsys amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ), total tau/Aβ(1-42), and phosphorylated tau/Aβ(1-42) were defined against flutemetamol PET in Swedish BioFINDER (n = 277) and validated against florbetapir

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of midlife lipid levels on Alzheimer brain pathology 20 years later in cognitively normal elderly individuals. METHODS: This is a longitudinal cohort study of 318 cognitively normal individuals with data on fasting lipid levels at midlife (mean age 54 years). Presence of β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau pathologies 20 years later