Biomarkers.

Background: New techniques have been developed to estimate the age when someone converted to amyloid positivity (EAOA) from PET, oftentimes offering information Aβout a participant decades before they joined a research study. EAOA is variable across populations but we do not know the causes for these differences. This study aims to validate APOE associations with EAOA and explore genetic and sex-based factors with EAOA.

Large multi-ethnic genetic analyses of amyloid imaging identify new genes for Alzheimer disease.

Amyloid PET imaging has been crucial for detecting the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) deposits in the brain and to study Alzheimer's disease (AD). We performed a genome-wide association study on the largest collection of amyloid imaging data (N = 13,409) to date, across multiple ethnicities from multicenter cohorts to identify variants associated with brain amyloidosis and AD risk. We found a strong APOE signal on chr19q.

[Observation on short and long-term effects of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy treated with abdominal acupuncture plus Long's bone-setting manipulation].

Objective: To compare the short and long-term therapeutic effects on cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) treated with simple Long's bone-setting manipulation, abdominal acupuncture and abdominal acupuncture plus Long's bone-setting manipulation.

Methods: One hundred and eighty cases of CSR were randomly allocated into abdominal acupuncture plus bone-setting group (combined therapy group), bone-setting group and abdominal acupuncture group, 60 cases in each group. In combined therapy group, the abdominal acupuncture and Long's bone-setting were applied in combination.