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@ARTICLE{Aarsland:285022,
author = {Aarsland, Dag and Sunde, Anita Lenora and Tovar-Rios, Diego
A and Leuzy, Antoine and Fladby, Tormod and Zetterberg,
Henrik and Blennow, Kaj and Tan, Kübra and De Santis,
Giovanni and Yakoub, Yara and Arslan, Burak and Huber, Hanna
and Pola, Ilaria and Grötschel, Lana and Di Molfetta,
Guglielmo and Skjellegrind, Håvard K and Selbaek, Geir and
Ashton, Nicholas J},
title = {{P}revalence of {A}lzheimer's disease pathology in the
community.},
journal = {Nature},
volume = {650},
number = {8100},
issn = {0028-0836},
address = {London [u.a.]},
publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
reportid = {DZNE-2026-00147},
pages = {182 - 186},
year = {2026},
abstract = {The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease neuropathological
changes (ADNCs), the leading cause of cognitive impairment,
remains uncertain. Recent blood-based biomarkers enable
scalable assessment of ADNCs1. Here we measured
phosphorylated tau at threonine 217 in 11,486 plasma samples
from a Norwegian population-based cohort of individuals over
57 years of age as a surrogate marker for ADNCs. The
estimated prevalence of ADNCs increased with age, from less
than $8\%$ in people 58-69.9 years of age to $65.2\%$ in
those over 90 years of age. Among participants aged 70 years
or older, $10\%$ had preclinical Alzheimer's disease,
$10.4\%$ had prodromal Alzheimer's disease and $9.8\%$ had
Alzheimer's disease dementia. Furthermore, among those 70
years of age or older, ADNCs were present in $60\%$ of
people with dementia, in $32.6\%$ of those with mild
cognitive impairment and in $23.5\%$ of the cognitively
unimpaired group. Our findings suggest a higher prevalence
of Alzheimer's disease dementia in older individuals and a
lower prevalence of preclinical Alzheimer's disease in
younger groups than previously estimated2.},
keywords = {Humans / Alzheimer Disease: epidemiology / Alzheimer
Disease: pathology / Alzheimer Disease: blood / Alzheimer
Disease: diagnosis / Aged / Prevalence / Aged, 80 and over /
Male / Female / tau Proteins: blood / tau Proteins:
chemistry / Norway: epidemiology / Cognitive Dysfunction:
epidemiology / Cognitive Dysfunction: blood / Cognitive
Dysfunction: pathology / Middle Aged / Phosphorylation /
Cohort Studies / Biomarkers: blood / Age Factors / tau
Proteins (NLM Chemicals) / Biomarkers (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {AG Schneider},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1011305},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:41407852},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-025-09841-y},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/285022},
}