Study Objectives: To determine the effect of self-reported clinical diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) on longitudinal changes in brain amyloid-PET and CSF-biomarkers (Aβ42, T-tau and P-tau) in cognitively normal (NL), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) elderly. Methods: Longitudinal study with mean follow-up time of 2.52±0.51 years. Data was obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database. Participants included 516 NL, 798 MCI and 325 AD elderly. Main Outcomes were annual rate-of-change in brain amyloid-burden (i.e. longitudinal increases in florbetapir-PET uptake or decreases in CSF-Aβ42 levels); and tau-protein aggregation (i.e. longitudinal increases in CSF total-tau (T-tau) and phosphorylated-tau (P-tau)). Adjusted multi-level mixed effects linear regression models with randomly varying intercepts and slopes was used to test whether the rate-of-biomarker-change differed between participants with and without OSA. Results: In NL and MCI groups, OSA+ subjects experienced faster annual increase in
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