Blood metabolites predicting mild cognitive impairment in the study of Latinos-investigation of neurocognitive aging (HCHS/SOL)

Shan He, Einat Granot-Hershkovitz, Ying Zhang, Jan Bressler, Wassim Tarraf, Bing Yu, Tianyi Huang, Donglin Zeng, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Melissa Lamar, Martha Daviglus, Maria J. Marquine, Jianwen Cai, Thomas Mosley, Robert Kaplan, Eric Boerwinkle, Myriam Fornage, Charles DeCarli, Bruce Kristal, Hector M. GonzalezTamar Sofer

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Abstract

Introduction: Blood metabolomics-based biomarkers may be useful to predict measures of neurocognitive aging. Methods: We tested the association between 707 blood metabolites measured in 1451 participants from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and global cognitive change assessed 7 years later. We further used Lasso penalized regression to construct a metabolomics risk score (MRS) that predicts MCI, potentially identifying a different set of metabolites than those discovered in individual-metabolite analysis. Results: We identified 20 metabolites predicting prevalent MCI and/or global cognitive change. Six of them were novel and 14 were previously reported as associated with neurocognitive aging outcomes. The MCI MRS comprised 61 metabolites and improved prediction accuracy from 84% (minimally adjusted model) to 89% in the entire dataset and from 75% to 87% among apolipoprotein E ε4 carriers. Discussion: Blood metabolites may serve as biomarkers identifying individuals at risk for MCI among US Hispanics/Latinos.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbere12259
JournalAlzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Hispanics/Latinos
  • global cognitive change
  • metabolite biomarkers
  • metabolomic risk score
  • mild cognitive impairment
  • risk prediction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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