Neurostructural and molecular evidence of advanced brain aging in rheumatoid arthritis
Wasen, C.; Erlandsson, M.; Andersson, K.; Stefanov, K.; Gustafsson, A.; Hovland, M.; Pullerits, R.; Silfversward, S. T.; Blennow, K.; Zetterberg, H.; Basu, N.; Bokarewa, M. I.; Heckemann, R.
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Chronic systemic inflammation has been implicated in age-related neurodegeneration, but whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with accelerated brain aging remains unclear. We combined structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), circulating neurodegeneration biomarkers, and peripheral monocyte transcriptomics to investigate brain aging in RA across two independent cohorts. A brain-age prediction model trained in healthy controls from the IXI imaging dataset was applied to RA patient cohorts from Gothenburg (n = 71) and Glasgow (n = 50). RA was associated with significantly elevated corrected brain-age gap relative to healthy controls (+6.5 years, 95% CI 4.2-8.8 years, p = 1.2 x 10-7), with substantially stronger effects in patients [≥]60 years. Older RA patients demonstrated a significant ventricular enlargement together with reduced frontal and parietal lobe volumes. Serum brain-derived tau and glial fibrillary acidic protein levels were elevated in RA. The increased brain-age gap was associated with altered myeloid transcriptional signatures. These findings demonstrate that RA is associated with age-related neurostructural alterations consistent with accelerated brain aging.
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