{"id":443238,"date":"2023-04-13T07:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=443238"},"modified":"2023-04-13T07:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:59:29","slug":"sugar-molecule-in-blood-can-predict-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/sugar-molecule-in-blood-can-predict-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar molecule in blood can predict Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated with the level of tau, the institution writes in a press release<\/a>. Tau is a protein that plays a critical role in the development of severe dementia. The study, which is published in\u00a0Alzheimer’s & Dementia<\/em>, can pave the way for a simple screening procedure able to predict onset ten years in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe role of glycans, structures made up of sugar molecules, is a relatively unexplored field in dementia research,\u201d says the study\u2019s first author Robin Zhou, medical student and affiliated researcher at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet. \u201cWe demonstrate in our study that blood levels of glycans are altered early during the development of the disease. This could mean that we\u2019ll be able to predict the risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease with only a blood test and a memory test.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the neurons of the brain die, which is thought to be a result of the abnormal accumulation of the proteins amyloid beta and\u00a0tau. Clinical trials for Alzheimer\u2019s drugs show that treatment should commence early in the pathological process, before too many neurons have died, to reverse the process before it is too late.<\/p>\n\n\n

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More blood biomarkers needed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is both a practical and a financial need for non-invasive screening methods for Alzheimer\u2019s. Markers in blood are preferable, as taking samples of the cerebrospinal fluid is more difficult and brain imaging is expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that the level of a certain glycan structure in blood, denoted bisected N-acetylglucosamine, can be used to predict the risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research group has previously demonstrated a link between tau protein and glycan levels in people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, but these analyses were done on cerebrospinal fluid. Glycans are sugar molecules found on the surface of proteins, the building blocks of life, and determine the location and function of these proteins in the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By measuring blood glycan levels the researchers found that individuals with matching levels of glycans and tau were over twice as likely to develop Alzheimer\u2019s-type dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe also show that a simple statistical model that take into account blood glycan and tau levels, the risk gene APOE4 and a memory test, can be used to predict Alzheimer\u2019s disease to a reliability of 80 per cent almost a decade before symptoms such as memory loss appear,\u201d says corresponding author Sophia Schedin Weiss, docent at NVS, Karolinska Institutet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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17-year follow-up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The results are based on 233 participants of the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K). The samples were collected between 2001 and 2004, and the participants were monitored regularly with respect to factors such as memory loss and the presence of dementia. The follow-ups were carried out every three to six years and continued for 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers will now be analysing blood samples from the remaining participants of the SNAC-K study as well as from participants of other aging studies in and outside Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re collaborating with researchers in primary care in Sweden to evaluate different biomarkers for dementia at primary health care centres,\u201d says Dr Schedin Weiss. \u201cWe hope that glycans in the blood will prove to be a valuable complement to current methods of screening people for Alzheimer\u2019s disease that will enable the disease to be detected early.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated with the level of tau, the institution writes in a press release. Tau is a protein that plays a critical role in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1744,"featured_media":494207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34665],"tags":[29776,77188,42938,76083],"location":[54353],"article_type":[36684],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-443238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-karolinska-instituet","tag-neurosciences","tag-preventive-healthcare","location-sweden","article_type-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered a way to predict Alzheimer's disease onset ten years in advance. ","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Aafke Eppinga","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/aafke-eppinga\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/old-peoples-home-g7273dec49_1280.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Health<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Alzheimer's disease<\/a>","Karolinska Instituet<\/a>","neurosciences<\/a>","preventive healthcare<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Alzheimer's disease<\/span>","Karolinska Instituet<\/span>","neurosciences<\/span>","preventive healthcare<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 13, 2023","modified":"Updated on April 13, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 13, 2023 7:59 am","modified":"Updated on April 13, 2023 7:59 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=443238"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=443238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}