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. 2017 Mar 31;9:77. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00077

Table 2.

Alzheimer's disease biomarkers, biomarkers' probabilistic impact on Alzheimer's disease presence and the corresponding bibliographic reference.

Biomarker Relative probability related to AD progression References
Age (>85) 38% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Age (75–84) 43% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Age (65–74) 15% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Age (<65) 4% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Lewy Body disease 10-20% The only way to conclusively diagnose the Dementia with Lewy Bodies is through a postmortem autopsy, and it is quite difficult to be recognized as no Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Association, 2015
APP 10%,15%,50% Bird, 2012
Hypertension 20% Israeli-Korn et al., 2010
GTPases <1% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Depression 13.2% Modrego and Ferrández, 2004; Barnes and Yaffe, 2011
Smoking 27.4% Barnes and Yaffe, 2011
Diabetes 6.4% Barnes and Yaffe, 2011
Obesity 3.4% Barnes and Yaffe, 2011
Physical Activity 17.7% Barnes and Yaffe, 2011
APOE4 30-70% Bird, 2012
PS 1,2 5% Bird, 2012
Amyloid Angiopathy 80% Serrano-Pozo et al., 2011
Oxidative Stress 25-30% Christen, 2000
Inflammation 30-40% de la Torre, 2002
Isoprostanes 50% Praticò et al., 2002
P53 75% Hooper et al., 2007
Cytokines 50% Chakrabarty et al., 2015
miRNAs 60% Wang et al., 2009
DVLP 74.3% Wang et al., 2009
OPA1 61.4% Wang et al., 2009
MFN1 27.8% Wang et al., 2009
MFN2 33.6% Wang et al., 2009
FIS1 60% Wang et al., 2009
Visual, neuropsychiatric disorders 5% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Executive, language, praxis disorders 40% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
DayLiving disorders 10-20% Alzheimer's Association, 2015
Metal Ions 24% Nazem and Mansoori, 2011
Unbalance Ca 5% Shilling et al., 2014
Senile plaques Over 60% until the Age of 80 and increases linearly on the Age Stone, 2008
Amyloid Beta Over 50% in Ages>85 Snider et al., 2009
Hippocampal volume loss/Memory Impairment Approximately 10% of elders over the age of 70 years have significant memory loss and more than half of these individuals have AD Schuff et al., 2009