Brain amyloid burden, sleep, and 24-hour rest/activity rhythms: Screening findings from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's and Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration Studies

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Study Objectives: To examine in a subsample at the screening phase of a clinical trial of a β-amyloid (Aβ) antibody whether disturbed sleep and altered 24-hour rest/activity rhythms (RARs) may serve as markers of preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods: Overall, 26 Aβ-positive (Aβ+) and 33 Aβ-negative (Aβ-) cognitively unimpaired participants (mean age = 71.3 ± 4.6 years, 59% women) from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's (A4) and the Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration (LEARN) studies, respectively, wore actigraphs for 5.66 ± 0.88 24-hour periods. We computed standard sleep parameters, standard RAR metrics (mean estimating statistic of rhythm, amplitude, acrophase, interdaily stability, intradaily variability, relative amplitude), and performed a novel RAR analysis (function-on-scalar regression [FOSR]). Results: We were unable to detect any differences between Aβ+ and Aβ- participants in standard sleep parameters or RAR metrics with our sample size. When we used novel FOSR methods, however, Aβ+ participants had lower activity levels than Aβ- participants in the late night through early morning (11:30 pm to 3:00 am), and higher levels in the early morning (4:30 am to 8:30 am) and from midday through late afternoon (12:30 pm to 5:30 pm; all p

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Spira, A. P., Zipunnikov, V., Raman, R., Choi, J., Di, J., Bai, J., … Rosenberg, P. B. (2021). Brain amyloid burden, sleep, and 24-hour rest/activity rhythms: Screening findings from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s and Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration Studies. SLEEP Advances, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpab015

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