Study examines association of sleep-disordered breathing with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

What The Study Did: This study used data and brain imaging from a randomized clinical trial for older adults who are cognitively unimpaired and examined brain changes, including the presence of biomarkers for Alzheimer disease, between those with sleep-disordered breathing and those without.

Authors: Gael Chetelat, Ph.D., of the Universite de Caen in France, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.0311)

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