CSF biomarkers within a Belgian allochthonous population : Developing topics

Background Neuropsychological testing is difficult in allochthonous older individuals due to language, sociocultural, and educational differences with autochthones. Using biomarkers could help making early diagnosis of neurodegeneration in this population, but so far very few studies have investigated biomarker differences between allochthones and autochthones. We aimed to characterize the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers (protein TAU, amyloid β42, tau/amyloid β42 ratio and pTau) in autochthonous and allochthonous patients. Besides ethnic origin, we matched our gro... Mehr ...