Frontiers | Targeted plasma metabolomics reveals potential biomarkers of the elderly with mild cognitive impairment in Qingdao rural area
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Scho ol of Public Health, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China Introduction: Previous research has suggested a link between the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and metabolic disorder; however, the findings have been inconsistent. To date, the majority of metabolomics studies have focused on AD, resulting in a relative paucity of research on early-stage conditions such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) underexplored. In this study, we employed a