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Elsevier, Alzheimer's && Dementia :: Diagnosis, Assessment && Disease Monitoring, 1(15), 2023

DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12390

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Discriminative accuracy of the A/T/N scheme to identify cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease

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AbstractIntroductionThe optimal combination of amyloid‐β/tau/neurodegeneration (A/T/N) biomarker profiles for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia is unclear.MethodsWe examined the discriminative accuracy of A/T/N combinations assessed with neuroimaging biomarkers for the differentiation of AD from cognitively unimpaired (CU) elderly and non‐AD neurodegenerative diseases in the TRIAD, BioFINDER‐1 and BioFINDER‐2 cohorts (total n = 832) using area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC).ResultsFor the diagnosis of AD dementia (vs. CU elderly), T biomarkers performed as well as the complete A/T/N system (AUC range: 0.90–0.99). A and T biomarkers in isolation performed as well as the complete A/T/N system in differentiating AD dementia from non‐AD neurodegenerative diseases (AUC range; A biomarker: 0.84–1; T biomarker: 0.83–1).DiscussionIn diagnostic settings, the use of A or T neuroimaging biomarkers alone can reduce patient burden and medical costs compared with using their combination, without significantly compromising accuracy.