Another study showed that the related inflammatory cytokines [growth-related oncogenes; interleukin (IL)-10, IL-2, and IL-8; macrophage inflammatory protein-1β; and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α] were negatively correlated with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score of patients, whereas the MoCA score was significantly positively correlated with dementia-related factors (αβ42 and total tau) (Tao et al., 2022). Here, TNF is linked to dementia.