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Methods: We recruited 1,051 cognitively normal individuals (61.94\u00b110.29 years, 59.66%male) from the Chinese Alzheimer\u2019s Biomarker and LifestylE (CABLE) study with CSF detections for amyloid-\u03b2 42 (A\u03b242), total-tau (T-tau), and phosphorylated tau (P-tau). We utilized body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, and metabolic risk factors to determine human obesity types. Multiple linear models and interaction analyses were run to assess the impacts of obesity on AD biomarkers. Results: The metabolically unhealthy obesity or healthy obesity might exert a reduced tau pathology burden (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05). Individuals with overweight, general obesity, and central obesity presented lower levels of tau-related proteins in CSF than normal controls (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05). Specially, for late-life individuals, higher levels of obesity indices were associated with a lower load of tau pathology as measured by CSF T-tau and T-tau\/A\u03b242 (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05). No similar significant associations were observed in midlife. Conclusion: Collectively, late-life general and central obesity seems to be associated with the reduced load of tau pathology, which further consolidates the favorable influence of obesity in specific life courses for AD prevention.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jad-215351","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]],"date-time":"2021-12-07T14:18:52Z","timestamp":1638886732000},"page":"877-887","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Late-Life Obesity Associated with Tau Pathology in Cognitively Normal Individuals: The CABLE Study"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"85","author":[{"given":"Xiao-Xue","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ya-Hui","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 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