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Elevated Levels of Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Dementia

OBJECTIVE: Vascular dementia (VaD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with cognitive decline caused by cerebrovascular factors. Despite the great progress made in the past decade, VaD still lacks effective treatments and peripheral blood biomarkers. In this study, we tested the level of peri...

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Autores principales: Ma, Weibin, Zhang, Jingjing, Xu, Jialei, Feng, Depeng, Wang, Xiaoling, Zhang, Fengyu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6612871
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author Ma, Weibin
Zhang, Jingjing
Xu, Jialei
Feng, Depeng
Wang, Xiaoling
Zhang, Fengyu
author_facet Ma, Weibin
Zhang, Jingjing
Xu, Jialei
Feng, Depeng
Wang, Xiaoling
Zhang, Fengyu
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description OBJECTIVE: Vascular dementia (VaD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with cognitive decline caused by cerebrovascular factors. Despite the great progress made in the past decade, VaD still lacks effective treatments and peripheral blood biomarkers. In this study, we tested the level of peripheral blood neurofilament light chain (NfL) in VaD patients and explored its relationship with cognitive impairment. METHOD: A total of 176 study subjects including 80 normal controls (NC) and 96 VaD patients were included in our study. Upon admission, we collected clinical and biochemical characteristics of all research subjects. We also evaluate the Montreal cognitive assessment scale (MoCA) scores of all subjects. The serum NfL level was measured by the single-molecule array (Simoa) method. RESULTS: The years of education in the NC group and VaD group were (11.65 ± 3.04) years and (10.53 ± 3.87) years, respectively. Compared with VaD patients, the NC group has a higher level of education (p = 0.037). Furthermore, the results of Simoa indicated that VaD subjects had higher serum NfL levels compared with the NC group [(8.49 ± 2.37) pg/ml vs. (19.26 ± 4.71) pg/ml, p < 0.001]. In terms of other clinical and biochemical characteristics, there was no significant difference between VaD and NC. The Spearman correlation analysis indicated that educational years have a significant positive correlation with MoCA scores (r = 0.238, p = 0.041), while age and serum NfL levels have a significantly negative correlation with MoCA scores (age: r = −0.213, p = 0.040; NfL: r = −0.395, p = 0.027). However, further multiple regression analysis showed that only serum NfL level might serve as an independent risk factor for cognitive decline in VaD (β = 0.317, p = 0.021). CONCLUSION: The serum NfL levels in VaD subjects are significantly elevated, which may be used as a potential peripheral blood marker for predicting cognitive impairment in patients with VaD.
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spelling pubmed-76526002020-11-16 Elevated Levels of Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Dementia Ma, Weibin Zhang, Jingjing Xu, Jialei Feng, Depeng Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Fengyu Dis Markers Research Article OBJECTIVE: Vascular dementia (VaD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with cognitive decline caused by cerebrovascular factors. Despite the great progress made in the past decade, VaD still lacks effective treatments and peripheral blood biomarkers. In this study, we tested the level of peripheral blood neurofilament light chain (NfL) in VaD patients and explored its relationship with cognitive impairment. METHOD: A total of 176 study subjects including 80 normal controls (NC) and 96 VaD patients were included in our study. Upon admission, we collected clinical and biochemical characteristics of all research subjects. We also evaluate the Montreal cognitive assessment scale (MoCA) scores of all subjects. The serum NfL level was measured by the single-molecule array (Simoa) method. RESULTS: The years of education in the NC group and VaD group were (11.65 ± 3.04) years and (10.53 ± 3.87) years, respectively. Compared with VaD patients, the NC group has a higher level of education (p = 0.037). Furthermore, the results of Simoa indicated that VaD subjects had higher serum NfL levels compared with the NC group [(8.49 ± 2.37) pg/ml vs. (19.26 ± 4.71) pg/ml, p < 0.001]. In terms of other clinical and biochemical characteristics, there was no significant difference between VaD and NC. The Spearman correlation analysis indicated that educational years have a significant positive correlation with MoCA scores (r = 0.238, p = 0.041), while age and serum NfL levels have a significantly negative correlation with MoCA scores (age: r = −0.213, p = 0.040; NfL: r = −0.395, p = 0.027). However, further multiple regression analysis showed that only serum NfL level might serve as an independent risk factor for cognitive decline in VaD (β = 0.317, p = 0.021). CONCLUSION: The serum NfL levels in VaD subjects are significantly elevated, which may be used as a potential peripheral blood marker for predicting cognitive impairment in patients with VaD. Hindawi 2020-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7652600/ /pubmed/33204362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6612871 Text en Copyright © 2020 Weibin Ma et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Elevated Levels of Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Dementia
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title_fullStr Elevated Levels of Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Dementia
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title_short Elevated Levels of Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Dementia
title_sort elevated levels of serum neurofilament light chain associated with cognitive impairment in vascular dementia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6612871
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