Alzheimer disease’s cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers differences between immigrants and natives in a Belgian memory clinic

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases can raise difficulties among immigrant patients due to language, educational or sociocultural differences with natives. CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease are useful tools to early diagnose neurodegeneration. Yet very few studies have investigated differences of those biomarkers between immigrant and native populations. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to characterize differences between CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease within Belgian native and immigrant patients analyzed at Saint Luc Neurochemistry Lab (Brussels, Belgium). METHODS: CSF samples f... Mehr ...