Clinical trial NCT04932473: ALFAsleep: Exploring Cognitive and Biological Correlates of Sleep Quality and Their Potential Links With Alzheimer's Disease
Official title: ALFAsleep: Exploring Cognitive and Biological Correlates of Sleep Quality and Their Potential Links With Alzheimer's Disease
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Cognitively Unimpaied
Lead sponsor: Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-06-21
Enrollment: 179
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 45
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: A total of 200 participants from the BBRC ALFA+ study (ALFA - FPM - 0311) will be selected based on their core AD biomarker profile to characterize their sleep quality with objective (actigraphy and RUSleeping RTS) and subjective measures.

Participants will be classified into two different groups, based on previously established CSF biomarkers cut off values, as follows: 1) Controls: individuals with CSF Aβ42/ Aβ40 ratio \> 0.071 ng/mL (considered as without altered AD biomarkers). 2) Preclinical AD: individuals with CSF Aβ42/ Aβ40 ratio 0.071 ≤ ng/mL (considered as with evidence of brain amyloidosis). However, it must be noted that thresholds for core biomarker abnormalities in preclinical AD, is an ongoing field of research and that these thresholds may vary with the addition of novel data/evidence resulting from our group and others.

Brief summary: The main goal of this study is to perform a multimodal characterization of brain structural and functional changes, as well as changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers, as a function of sleep quality measures. Cross-sectional data will enable us to confirm and expand previous knowledge in a large and well-phenotyped population, while longitudinal data will allow us to test the hypothesis of the existence of a bidirectional relationship between sleep quality and AD.

Detailed description: The main goal of this study is to perform a multimodal characterization of brain structural and functional changes, as well as changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers, as a function of sleep quality measures. Cross-sectional data will enable us to confirm and expand previous knowledge in a large and well-phenotyped population, while longitudinal data will allow us to test the hypothesis of the existence of a bidirectional relationship between sleep quality and AD.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects that are currently participating in the ALFA+ study (cognitively healthy adults aged between 45-65 years at the moment of the inclusion in the 45-65/FPM2012 study).
* Subjects from whom CSF and/or neuroimaging biomarkers have been acquired during the last 36 months prior to their enrollment in the current study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Presence of cognitive impairment.
* Presence of clinically relevant neurological disorder, psychiatric disorder or other medical conditions that may jeopardize the interpretation of the study results according to the investigator criteria
* For the PSG sub-study, participants currently treated with drugs that may interfere in PSG data interpretation (e.g. antidepressants or benzodiazepines).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sleep quality
timeFrame: up to 2 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Barcelona
country: Spain
facility: Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center
Study officials:
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