CHI3L1 and frontotemporal dementia: However, it should be noted that high levels of blood YKL-40 have also been reported in aging, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, and Lewy body dementia, as well as to vary according to sex, thus almost excluding its applicability as a specific and differential AD biomarker [81,85].