TY - JOUR
T1 - Serum neurofilament light levels are correlated to long-term neurocognitive outcome measures after cardiac arrest
AU - Blennow Nordström, Erik
AU - Lilja, Gisela
AU - Ullén, Susann
AU - Blennow, Kaj
AU - Friberg, Hans
AU - Hassager, Christian
AU - Kjærgaard, Jesper
AU - Mattsson-Carlgren, Niklas
AU - Moseby-Knappe, Marion
AU - Nielsen, Niklas
AU - Vestberg, Susanna
AU - Zetterberg, Henrik
AU - Cronberg, Tobias
N1 - Funding Information:
K.B. has served as a consultant, at advisory boards, or at data monitoring committees for Abcam, Axon, Biogen, JOMDD/Shimadzu. Julius Clinical, Lilly, MagQu, Novartis, Roche Diagnostics, and Siemens Healthineers, and is a co-founder of Brain Biomarker Solutions in Gothenburg AB (BBS), which is a part of the GU Ventures Incubator Program, all unrelated to the present work. J.K. is supported by a grant from NovoNordisk foundation (grant number NNF17OC0028706), for work outside the present manuscript. H.Z. has served at scientific advisory boards for Denali, Roche Diagnostics, Wave, Samumed, Siemens Healthineers, Pinteon Therapeutics and CogRx, has given lectures in symposia sponsored by Fujirebio, Alzecure and Biogen, and is a co-founder of Brain Biomarker Solutions in Gothenburg AB (BBS), which is a part of the GU Ventures Incubator Program, all unrelated to the present work. H.Z. is a Wallenberg Scholar. All other authors report no conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The study sponsors had no involvement in the study design; in the collection, analyses and interpretation of the data; in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2022/6/13
Y1 - 2022/6/13
N2 - Objective: To explore associations between four methods assessing long-term neurocognitive outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and early hypoxic-ischemic neuronal brain injury assessed by the biomarker serum neurofilament light (NFL), and to compare the agreement for the outcome methods. Methods: An explorative post-hoc study was conducted on survivor data from the international Target Temperature Management after Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest trial, investigating serum NFL sampled 48/72-hours post-arrest and neurocognitive outcome 6 months post-arrest. Results: Among the long-term surviving participants (N = 457), serum NFL (n = 384) was associated to all outcome instruments, also when controlling for demographic and cardiovascular risk factors. Associations between NFL and the patient-reported Two Simple Questions (TSQ) were however attenuated when adjusting for vitality and mental health. NFL predicted results on the outcome instruments to varying degrees, with an excellent area under the curve for the clinician-report Cerebral Performance Category (CPC 1–2: 0.90). Most participants were classified as CPC 1 (79%). Outcome instrument correlations ranged from small (Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE]–TSQ) to strong (CPC–MMSE). Conclusions: The clinician-reported CPC was mostly related to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, but with a ceiling effect. These results may be useful when selecting methods and instruments for clinical follow-up models.
AB - Objective: To explore associations between four methods assessing long-term neurocognitive outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and early hypoxic-ischemic neuronal brain injury assessed by the biomarker serum neurofilament light (NFL), and to compare the agreement for the outcome methods. Methods: An explorative post-hoc study was conducted on survivor data from the international Target Temperature Management after Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest trial, investigating serum NFL sampled 48/72-hours post-arrest and neurocognitive outcome 6 months post-arrest. Results: Among the long-term surviving participants (N = 457), serum NFL (n = 384) was associated to all outcome instruments, also when controlling for demographic and cardiovascular risk factors. Associations between NFL and the patient-reported Two Simple Questions (TSQ) were however attenuated when adjusting for vitality and mental health. NFL predicted results on the outcome instruments to varying degrees, with an excellent area under the curve for the clinician-report Cerebral Performance Category (CPC 1–2: 0.90). Most participants were classified as CPC 1 (79%). Outcome instrument correlations ranged from small (Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE]–TSQ) to strong (CPC–MMSE). Conclusions: The clinician-reported CPC was mostly related to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, but with a ceiling effect. These results may be useful when selecting methods and instruments for clinical follow-up models.
KW - biomarker
KW - cardiovascular disease
KW - cognitive impairment
KW - heart arrest
KW - Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
U2 - 10.1080/02699052.2022.2048693
DO - 10.1080/02699052.2022.2048693
M3 - Article
C2 - 35253570
AN - SCOPUS:85126049647
SN - 0269-9052
VL - 36
SP - 800
EP - 809
JO - Brain Injury
JF - Brain Injury
IS - 6
ER -