Serum neurofilament light levels are correlated to long-term neurocognitive outcome measures after cardiac arrest
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Brain Injury |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 6 |
Pages (from-to) | 800-809 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISSN | 0269-9052 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, heart arrest, cognitive impairment, biomarker, cardiovascular disease, TARGETED TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE COMPLAINTS, MENTAL-STATE-EXAMINATION, SIMPLE QUESTIONS, 33-DEGREES-C, RESUSCITATION, 36-DEGREES-C, EPIDEMIOLOGY, SURVIVORS
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