Data from the Harvard Aging Brain Study found that higher amyloid beta levels were associated with increasing anxiety symptoms in cognitively normal older adults. The results suggest that worsening anxious-depressive symptoms may be an early predictor of elevated amyloid beta levels.
The study involved 270 cognitively healthy older adults (62-90). For five years, participants were annually assessed for depression, apathy-anhedonia, dysphoria, and anxiety.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/bawh-aa011118.php
Reference:
Donovan et al. 2017. Longitudinal Association of Amyloid Beta and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms in Cognitively Normal Older Adults. The American Journal of Psychiatry DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17040442