Aoife O'Donovan1, Amber Bahorik2, Stephen Sidney3, Lenore J Launer4, Kristine Yaffe2. 1. University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States. Electronic address: aoife.odonovan@ucsf.edu. 2. University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States. 3. Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, United States. 4. National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Elevated inflammation is associated with worse late-life cognitive functioning and brain health. Our goal was to examine the relationship between inflammation trajectories and white matter integrity in midlife. METHODS: Participants were 508 adults from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA; 51% female). Latent class analysis was used to identify inflammation trajectories based on repeated measures of the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) over the 18 years before brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Outcomes were brain MRI measures of total and region-specific white matter volume and integrity at a mean age of 50.6 ± 3.4 years. Linear regression was used to examine if inflammation trajectories were associated with brain MRI outcomes, adjusting for potential confounds in all models and for disease and health behaviors in follow-up models. RESULTS: Lower-stable (38%), moderate-increasing (7%), and consistently-higher (54%), trajectories emerged. Compared to the lower-stable group, the moderate-increasing group showed lower white matter volume (β = -0.18, 95% CI -0.29, -0.06) and worse white matter integrity as indexed by lower fractional anisotropy (FA; β = -0.37, 95% CI -0.70, -0.04) and higher mean diffusivity (β = 0.44, 95% CI 0.11, 0.78) in the whole brain. The consistently-higher group showed lower whole-brain FA (β = -0.20, -0.38, -0.03). In exploratory analyses, the moderate-increasing group showed lower white matter volume, lower FA and higher MD in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes compared to the lower-stable group. The consistently-higher group showed lower white matter volume in the parietal lobe and lower FA in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, but similar MD, compared to the lower-stable group. Findings for the moderate-increasing, but not the consistently-higher, group were robust to adjustment for disease and lifestyle factors. CONCLUSION: Increasing or high inflammation trajectories from early to mid adulthood are associated with worse brain health, as indexed by lower white matter volume and/or worse white matter integrity.
OBJECTIVE: Elevated inflammation is associated with worse late-life cognitive functioning and brain health. Our goal was to examine the relationship between inflammation trajectories and white matter integrity in midlife. METHODS: Participants were 508 adults from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA; 51% female). Latent class analysis was used to identify inflammation trajectories based on repeated measures of the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) over the 18 years before brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Outcomes were brain MRI measures of total and region-specific white matter volume and integrity at a mean age of 50.6 ± 3.4 years. Linear regression was used to examine if inflammation trajectories were associated with brain MRI outcomes, adjusting for potential confounds in all models and for disease and health behaviors in follow-up models. RESULTS: Lower-stable (38%), moderate-increasing (7%), and consistently-higher (54%), trajectories emerged. Compared to the lower-stable group, the moderate-increasing group showed lower white matter volume (β = -0.18, 95% CI -0.29, -0.06) and worse white matter integrity as indexed by lower fractional anisotropy (FA; β = -0.37, 95% CI -0.70, -0.04) and higher mean diffusivity (β = 0.44, 95% CI 0.11, 0.78) in the whole brain. The consistently-higher group showed lower whole-brain FA (β = -0.20, -0.38, -0.03). In exploratory analyses, the moderate-increasing group showed lower white matter volume, lower FA and higher MD in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes compared to the lower-stable group. The consistently-higher group showed lower white matter volume in the parietal lobe and lower FA in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, but similar MD, compared to the lower-stable group. Findings for the moderate-increasing, but not the consistently-higher, group were robust to adjustment for disease and lifestyle factors. CONCLUSION: Increasing or high inflammation trajectories from early to mid adulthood are associated with worse brain health, as indexed by lower white matter volume and/or worse white matter integrity.
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