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Associations between sleep quality and biomarkers for neurodegeneration - A longitudinal one-year case-control study of patients with bipolar disorder and healthy control individuals

Knorr, Ulla; Simonsen, Anja Hviid; Engström, Eva Letty Susanne; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Willkan, Mira; Forman, Julie; ... Kessing, Lars Vedel; + view all (2023) Associations between sleep quality and biomarkers for neurodegeneration - A longitudinal one-year case-control study of patients with bipolar disorder and healthy control individuals. Neuroscience Applied , 2 , Article 101011. 10.1016/j.nsa.2022.101011. Green open access

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Abstract

Disturbed sleep during affective episodes may impact levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-amyloid-beta (Aβ)42 and other biomarkers of neurodegeneration in patients with bipolar disorder (BD). The study aimed to investigate the correlations between sleep and biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and neurodegeneration in BD and healthy controls (HC). We present a prospective, longitudinal case-control study of euthymic patients with BD (N ​= ​86) and HC (N ​= ​44). All participants were evaluated with clinical assessments at baseline, and after a year. The patients’ affective states were recorded weekly as euthymic, subthreshold level, major depression, or (hypo)mania. Patients were re-assessed during and after an episode if it occurred during follow-up. Total sleep scores based on three Hamilton-17 Depression Scale items were analyzed in relation to concentrations of CSF-Aβ42, CSF-Aβ40, CSF-Aβ38, CSF-Aβ42/40 and 42/38 ratios, CSF-soluble amyloid-precursor proteins α+β, plasma-Aβ42, plasma-Aβ40, CSF-phosphorylated-tau, CSF-total-tau, plasma-total-tau, CSF-neurofilament-light, plasma-neurofilament-light, CSF-neurogranin, serum-S100B, CSF-8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-guanosine, CSF-8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2′-deoxyguanosine, urine-8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-guanosine, and urine-8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2′-deoxyguanosine. The primary outcome was the association between total sleep scores and levels of CSF-Aβ42 at baseline and follow-up estimated by the regression coefficient in a linear mixed model. We found no statistically significant associations between sleep and CSF-Aβ42 (−2.307 ​pg/ml (95% CI: -9.525–4.911; p ​= ​0.523)) or any other biomarkers. However, higher sleep scores appeared to be associated with higher CSF-Aβ42/40 and CSF-Aβ42/38 ratios, and lower CSF-total-tau concentration, but were not statistically significant after correction for multiple testing. In conclusion attenuated sleep during an affective episode was not associated with changes in biomarkers for AD and neurodegeneration in BD, but larger prospective studies are needed.

Type: Article
Title: Associations between sleep quality and biomarkers for neurodegeneration - A longitudinal one-year case-control study of patients with bipolar disorder and healthy control individuals
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.nsa.2022.101011
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nsa.2022.101011
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Cerebrospinal fluid, Bipolar disorder, Sleep, Amyloid, Tau, Neurofilament light
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160796
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