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Table 3 Plasma biomarker concentration in samples collected in the morning and evening

From: Effects of time of the day at sampling on CSF and plasma levels of Alzheimer’ disease biomarkers

Plasma Biomarkers [units]

Morning concentration

Evening concentration

Differences evening-morning

% Change

F (df1, df2) a

P-value corrected (uncorrected) b

Aβ42 [pg/mL]

38.43 (7.76)

40.08 (7.37)

1.65 (0.84 to 2.47)

4.84 (2.68 to 7)

16.81 (1, 37)

0.002 (0.0002)

Aβ40 [ng/mL]

0.29 (0.05)

0.30 (0.05)

0.01 (0.006 to 0.02)

4.24 (2.15–6.32)

16.05 (1, 37)

0.002 (0.0003)

Aβ42/40

0.14 (0.03)

0.14 (0.03)

0.001 (-0.002 to 0.001)

0.65 (-0.70 to 1.10)

0.79 (1, 37)

1 (0.38)

P-tau217 [pg/mL]

0.37 (0.16)

0.36 (0.16)

-0.01 (-0.01 to 0.03)

-0.56 (-7.13 to 6.01)

0.95 (1, 37)

1 (0.34)

P-tau231 [pg/mL]

6.88 (3.05)

6.67 (3)

-0.22 (-0.52 to 0.95)

2.48 (-8.86 to 13.83)

0.35 (1, 35) c

1 (0.55)

P-tau181 [pg/mL]

10.61 (4.89)

9.94 (4.43)

-0.71 (-0.76 to 2.10)

-0.15 (-11.75 to 11.46)

0.90 (1, 37)

1 (0.35)

GFAP [pg/mL]

0.11 (0.07)

0.10 (0.05)

-0.01 (-0.004 to 0.02)

-1.81 (-10.03 to 6.40)

2.04 (1, 37)

1 (0.16)

NfL [ng/mL]

3.83 (2.10)

3.42 (1.47)

-0.41 (-0.12 to 0.94)

-3.96 (-11.75 to 3.82)

2.46 (1, 37)

1 (0.13)

  1. Data shown as mean (SD) or mean (95%CI) unless specified otherwise. Abbreviations: Aβ, amyloid beta; GFAP, glial fibrillary acidic protein; NfL, neurofilament light; P-tau, phosphorylated tau
  2. a Main effects of sampling time from repeated measures two-way ANOVA
  3. bP-values were corrected for multiple comparison using the Bonferroni-Dunn method
  4. c Data was missing for 2 participants