AD biomarkers were determined using commercially available kits according to vendor specifications:
V-PLEX Aβ Peptide Panel 1 (6E10) Kit (K15200E) and
V-PLEX Human Total Tau Kit (K151LAE) (Mesoscale Diagnostics LLC, Rockville, USA), and
Innotest Phospho-Tau(181P) (81581; Fujirebio Germany GmbH, Hannover, Germany). Cutoff values for normal and abnormal concentrations of Aβ42 (<496 pg/ml) and for the ratio Aβ42/Aβ40 (< 0.09) were derived from the literature, which applied the respective assays [21 (
link)]. We used cutoff values established locally (Bonn) based on clinical nonimpaired control samples for Tau (> 470 pg/ml) and pTau (> 57 pg/ml).
In addition, we calculated the Hulstaert formula to define an abnormal Aβ42/Tau ratio [22 (
link)]:
This formula has been shown to be a very robust indicator of AD pathology in several independent studies (e.g., [23 (
link)]). The overall CSF sampling rate in DELCODE is around 50%. Here, we report data on 144 participants. The subsample of participants with CSF differed neither in demographic variables (sex, age, years of education) nor the MMSE from the subsample without CSF.
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