Association of neighborhood deprivation with white matter connectome abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Autor: Chu DY; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Adluru N; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Nair VA; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Choi T; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Adluru A; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Garcia-Ramos C; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Dabbs K; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Mathis J; Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Nencka AS; Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Gundlach C; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Conant L; Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Binder JR; Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Meyerand ME; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Alexander AL; Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Struck AF; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Hermann B; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Prabhakaran V; Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Epilepsia [Epilepsia] 2023 Sep; Vol. 64 (9), pp. 2484-2498. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 11.
DOI: 10.1111/epi.17702
Abstrakt: Objective: Social determinants of health, including the effects of neighborhood disadvantage, impact epilepsy prevalence, treatment, and outcomes. This study characterized the association between aberrant white matter connectivity in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and disadvantage using a US census-based neighborhood disadvantage metric, the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), derived from measures of income, education, employment, and housing quality.
Methods: Participants including 74 TLE patients (47 male, mean age = 39.2 years) and 45 healthy controls (27 male, mean age = 31.9 years) from the Epilepsy Connectome Project were classified into ADI-defined low and high disadvantage groups. Graph theoretic metrics were applied to multishell connectome diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) measurements to derive 162 × 162 structural connectivity matrices (SCMs). The SCMs were harmonized using neuroCombat to account for interscanner differences. Threshold-free network-based statistics were used for analysis, and findings were correlated with ADI quintile metrics. A decrease in cross-sectional area (CSA) indicates reduced white matter integrity.
Results: Sex- and age-adjusted CSA in TLE groups was significantly reduced compared to controls regardless of disadvantage status, revealing discrete aberrant white matter tract connectivity abnormalities in addition to apparent differences in graph measures of connectivity and network-based statistics. When comparing broadly defined disadvantaged TLE groups, differences were at trend level. Sensitivity analyses of ADI quintile extremes revealed significantly lower CSA in the most compared to least disadvantaged TLE group.
Significance: Our findings demonstrate (1) the general impact of TLE on DWI connectome status is larger than the association with neighborhood disadvantage; however, (2) neighborhood disadvantage, indexed by ADI, revealed modest relationships with white matter structure and integrity on sensitivity analysis in TLE. Further studies are needed to explore this relationship and determine whether the white matter relationship with ADI is driven by social drift or environmental influences on brain development. Understanding the etiology and course of the disadvantage-brain integrity relationship may serve to inform care, management, and policy for patients.
(© 2023 The Authors. Epilepsia published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International League Against Epilepsy.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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