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General Information
How did you learn about the YODA Project?:
Colleague
Conflict of Interest
Request Clinical Trials
Associated Trial(s):
- NCT00575055 - A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Efficacy and Safety Trial of Bapineuzumab (AAB-001, ELN115727) In Patients With Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease Who Are Apolipoprotein E4 Carriers
- NCT00574132 - A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Efficacy and Safety Trial of Bapineuzumab (AAB-001, ELN115727) In Patients With Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease Who Are Apolipoprotein E4 Non- Carriers
What type of data are you looking for?:
Individual Participant-Level Data, which includes Full CSR and all supporting documentation
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Data Request Status
Status:
Ongoing
Research Proposal
Project Title:
Associations of brain volumetric changes with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers and clinical outcomes in bapineuzumab treatment.
Scientific Abstract:
Background: Anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies are known to cause brain and ventricle volume changes. Although this has raised safety concerns about the use of these medications, there are presently limited patient-level analyses of volume changes.
Objective: Determine the association of both 1) amyloid and tau markers, and 2) cognitive and functional scales, with brain volume changes.
Study design: Secondary analyses of two phase 3 trials of bapineuzumab.
Participants: Participants with Alzheimer's disease in all study arms
Primary outcome measure: Associations between 1) amyloid and tau markers, and 2) cognitive and functional scales, will be determined with whole brain and regional brain volume changes from baseline.
Statistical analyses: Associations will be assessed with mixed models, controlling for baseline values and age.
Brief Project Background and Statement of Project Significance:
Brain volume reduction and ventricular enlargement has been observed in several anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (Alves et al., 2023). With the licensing of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies in some countries worldwide, and ongoing review in many others, there are urgent calls to understand the causes and safety implications of observed brain volume changes (Alves et al., 2023; Liu et al., 2023).
There are limited patient-level analyses of MRI volumetric outcomes in anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody therapy. Verubecestat was found to reduce volumes in amyloid-rich cortical regions (Sur et al., 2020). Limited regional results have been performed for donanemab (A Study of LY3002813 in Participants With Early Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (TRAILBLAZER-ALZ), 2022) which found reductions in volume of both grey and white matter. Direct comparison of regional brain volume with amyloid or tau markers have not been performed, nor has correlation of volumetric changes with cognitive changes.
This project aims to assess associations of brain volume changes with imaging and CSF markers of Alzheimer's disease, and clinical markers. Outcomes of this project may provide additional safety information about anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies which to date has not been provided for highly active medications (i.e., aducanumab, lecanemab, and donanemab). Although bapineuzumab treatment was not associated with clinical change, ventricular enlargement appears to be a class effect (Alves et al., 2023) and so findings may generalise within this drug class.
Specific Aims of the Project:
Aim 1: Determine the associations of amyloid and tau change with regional brain volume change.
Objective: Determine markers of amyloid (PiB Global Cortical Uptake SUVR, CSF Amyloid-Beta) and tau (CSF p-tau and CSF t-tau) on brain volumes across treatment groups.
Hypothesis: Amyloid and tau reduction will be associated with statistically significant increases in ventricle volume and reduction in brain volumes in the pooled treatment group.
Aim 2: Evaluate associations between cognitive and functional measures with brain volume change.
Objective: Evaluate the association between cognitive and functional outcome measures (ADAS-Cog11, DAD, Neuropsychological Test Battery, CDR-sum of boxes, MMSE, Dependence Scale) with MRI volumetric outcomes across treatment groups.
Hypothesis: Cognitive and functional outcomes will have no statistically significant association with volumetric outcomes across treatment groups.
Study Design:
Individual trial analysis
What is the purpose of the analysis being proposed? Please select all that apply.:
New research question to examine treatment safety
Research on clinical trial methods
Software Used:
RStudio
Data Source and Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria to be used to define the patient sample for your study:
Patient-level data is sought from NCT00574132 and NCT00575055 which will be pooled across all placebo and treatment arms.
All participants will be included; no additional exclusion criteria will be applied.
For neuroimaging data, we request:
- All available scans for T1-weighted sequences, and if available, T2/FLAIR weighted sequences. T1 weighted sequences are required for automatic regional volume processing. Optional T2/FLAIR weighted sequences will allow more accurate automatic processing.
- Electronic data transfer of MRI scans to local secure server. Local secure servers will be used with restricted access (the same which were utilised for the original neuroimaging analysis of boundary-shift integral).
- MRI scans locally to be identified by participant ID and visit only. Output of local volumetric processing to be uploaded to secure online (Safe Harbour) platform and matched to patient-level data for subsequent analysis.
Primary and Secondary Outcome Measure(s) and how they will be categorized/defined for your study:
Both aims will have the same primary and secondary outcomes:
Primary outcome measures:
MRI volumetric measures for whole brain, ventricles, and hippocampus (mean of left and right) at final visit calculated via the boundary-shift integral
Secondary outcome measures:
MRI volumetric measures for lobar brain grey and white matter at all (19, 45, and 71 week) visits. Regional volumes will be computed using Freesurfer (Fischl, 2012) which is a well-established volumetric parcellation pipeline.
Main Predictor/Independent Variable and how it will be categorized/defined for your study:
Aim 1: Determine the associations of amyloid and tau with brain and ventricle volume change
Markers of amyloid: PiB Global Cortical Uptake SUVR, CSF Amyloid-Beta
Markers of tau: CSF p-tau and CSF t-tau
Treatment: Placebo and pooled bapineuzumab treatment group (across APOE4 carriers and non-carriers and doses)
Aim 2: Evaluate associations between cognitive and functional measures with brain volume change.
Cognitive and functional outcome measures: ADAS-Cog11, DAD, Neuropsychological Test Battery, CDR-sum of boxes, MMSE, Dependence Scale).
Treatment: Placebo and pooled bapineuzumab treatment group (across APOE4 carriers and non-carriers and doses)
Other Variables of Interest that will be used in your analysis and how they will be categorized/defined for your study:
All analyses will include covariate of age.
APOE4 status and bapinezumab dose required to characterise groups.
Statistical Analysis Plan:
Aim 1: Determine the associations of amyloid and tau with brain and ventricle volume change
We will use mixed models for repeated measures with separate models. Models will be created each MRI outcomes (whole brain, ventricle, hippocampal, and regional grey and white matter volume) for each biomarker (PiB, CSF amyloid, CSF, p-tau, CSF t-tau). In all models, fixed effects will include biomarker change from baseline, treatment, and biomarker-by-treatment interaction, and fixed effect covariates of age, baseline MRI volume, baseline biomarker value.
Aim 2: Evaluate associations between cognitive and functional measures with brain volume change.
We will use mixed models for repeated measures with separate models. Models will be created each MRI volume of interest (whole brain, ventricle, hippocampal, and regional grey and white matter volume) for each cognitive and functional outcome measure (ADAS-Cog11, DAD, Neuropsychological Test Battery, CDR-sum of boxes, MMSE, Dependence Scale). In all models, fixed effects will include cognitive or functional scale change from baseline, treatment, and scale-by-treatment interaction. Fixed effect covariates of age, baseline MRI volume/region value, and baseline behavioural or cognitive functional scale score.
Across both aims, for primary MRI outcomes (volumetric measures for whole brain, lateral ventricles, and hippocampus), nominal p-values will be used to assess for statistical significance. For secondary outcomes (regional brain volumes), p-values adjusted by the false discovery rate will be used to assess for statistical significance.
Processing of MRI images to derive regional brain volumes will be performed locally on images coded only by participant ID. Regional volumes will be uploaded to the Safe Harbour platform for subsequent participant-level analysis in R.
Narrative Summary:
New medications for Alzheimer's disease are known to slightly reduce the size of some parts of the brain. Although it remains unknown why this occurs. This study will look at how brain size changes with bapineuzumab treatment, and whether brain size changes are associated with markers of Alzheimer's disease or performance on memory and thinking tests. Results will provide additional safety information about bapineuzumab specifically and by extension to newer types of Alzheimer's disease medications.
Project Timeline:
September- October 2024: Conduct data processing and analyses
November-December 2024: Manuscript preparation, submission, and reporting to YODA Project.
Dissemination Plan:
Submissions to scientific conferences (e.g., AAIC or CTAD) and/or neurology scientific journals (e.g., Brain, Neurology, Alzheimer's and Dementia).
Bibliography:
A Study of LY3002813 in Participants With Early Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (TRAILBLAZER-ALZ). (2022). https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03367403
Alves, F., Kalinowski, P., & Ayton, S. (2023). Accelerated Brain Volume Loss Caused by Anti--β-Amyloid Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Neurology, 100(20). https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000207156
Fischl, B. (2012). FreeSurfer. NeuroImage, 62(2), 774--781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.021
Liu, K. Y., Villain, N., Ayton, S., Ackley, S. F., Planche, V., Howard, R., & Thambisetty, M. (2023). Key questions for the evaluation of anti-amyloid immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease. Brain Communications, 5(3), fcad175. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad175
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