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Preliminary Trends Linking Physical Activity To Favorable ADRD Blood Biomarkers

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Introduction:
•Physical activity represents a promising strategy to delay Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) onset1
•Yet little research has examined its associations with ADRD biomarkers
•Also, studies often rely on self-reported physical activity2-4 rather than objective measures.
•We examined the associations between objectively measured ambulatory physical activity and ADRD biomarkers
 
Methods:
Participants (n=67) wore accelerometers for 7 consecutive days

Physical activity measures

•Light physical activity
•Moderate physical activity
•Vigorous physical activity
•Sedentary time
•Sleep duration

Blood-based ADRD biomarkers

•Aβ 42/Aβ 40 ratio
•pTau217
•APS2

Analyses

1)Univariate and 2) age and sex adjusted linear regression models were used to evaluate the associations between physical activity measures (exposure) and ADRD biomarkers
2)Interactions were used to examine whether the associations were modified by APOE genotype, sex, and age.
 
Results:
 
•Mean age was 75.9 ± 6.1 years and 61.2% women
•Only age modified the associations between sleep duration and Aβ40 (β: -0.04, p = 0.006) suggesting that the association was stronger in younger participants.
•Greater total activity time and more time spent in moderate-intensity physical activity were associated with lower levels of p-tau217 (β: =-0.27, p = 0.073), Aβ42 (β: -0.96, p=0.065), Aβ40 (β = -8.35, 0.043), and APS2 (β =-2.08, p =0.082) but not with Aβ42/ Aβ40.
•Greater sedentary time Aβ40 (β = -6.05, 0.025) and longer sleep (β = 2.39, 0.049) showed associations with Aβ40
•Unexpectedly higher sedentary levels were also associated with  higher Aβ42/Aβ40
 
Conclusions:
•In this preliminary analysis, greater total physical activity and moderate-intensity physical activity were associated with more favorable plasma ADRD biomarker profiles, including lower levels of p-tau217, Aβ42, Aβ40, and APS2, although several associations did not reach conventional levels of statistical significance.
•Associations between sedentary behavior and ADRD biomarkers were less consistent.
•As this is an ongoing study with a currently modest sample size, the present findings should be considered preliminary and hypothesis-generating.
•Planned analyses in the full cohort of approximately 112 participants will provide substantially greater statistical power to clarify the direction, magnitude, and robustness of these associations and to determine whether physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep are independently associated with blood-based ADRD biomarkers.

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