Insulin Resistance is Associated with Higher Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Levels in Asymptomatic APOEɛ4 Carriers.

Starks, E., O. Patrick, S. Hoscheidt, A. Racine, C. Carlsson, H. Zetterberg, K. Blennow, O. Okonkwo, L. Puglielli, S. Asthana, N. Dowling, C. Gleason, R. Anderson, N. Davenport-Sis, L. DeRungs, M. Sager, S. Johnson, and B. Bendlin. “Insulin Resistance Is Associated With Higher Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Levels in Asymptomatic APOEɛ4 Carriers.”. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease : JAD, Vol. 46, no. 2, 2015, pp. 525-33.

Insulin resistance (IR) is linked with the occurrence of pathological features observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), including neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques. However, the extent to which IR is associated with AD pathology in the cognitively asymptomatic stages of preclinical AD remains unclear.

DOI: 10.3233/JAD-150072

PubMed: 25812851