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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Nov 23;19(5):2014–2023. doi: 10.1002/alz.12852

Table 1:

Participant characteristics at baseline. Factors included in analyses are shown in bold.

Total (n = 137) 42/Aβ40 − (n = 83) 42/Aβ40 +(n = 54)a Testa
Age, years 73.80 ±4.76 72.84 ±4.51 75.28 ±4.79 p < 0.01**
Sex, N = female, % 62 (45.26) 41 (49.40) 21 (38.89) p = 0.292
Education, years 16.50 ±2.27 16.25 ±2.27 16.87 ±2.25 p = 0.120
Raceb, N = White, % 120 (87.59) 69 (83.13) 51 (94.44) p = 0.064
APOE ε4+ carrier, N, % 47 (34.31) 13 (15.66) 34 (62.96) p < 0.001***
Biomarkers
CSF: Aβ 42 /Aβ 40 0.074 ±0.023 0.091±0.008 0.048 ±0.010 p < 0.001***
CSF: t-Tau 353.76 ±179.72 295.30 ±157.17 443.62 ±176.31 p < 0.001***
CSF: p-Tau 46.91±22.82 36.28 ±14.80 63.25 ±23.42 p < 0.001***
MRI c : Hippocampal volume (normalized), cm 3 7.48 ±0.95 7.47 ±0.94 7.50 ±0.96 p = 0.874
Driving
Trips with speeding, % 9.02 ±9.29 9.18 ±8.69 8.80 ±10.21 p = 0.821
Trips with hard braking, % 9.11 ±7.28 9.79 ±7.85 8.06 ±6.22 p = 0.153
Trips with hard acceleration, % 4.11 ±6.67 4.03 ±6.82 4.24 ±6.49 p = 0.863
Trips with any adverse driving events, % 18.53 ±12.76 19.16 ±12.43 17.57 ±13.31 p = 0.485
Trips, N 2866.86 ±1615.77 3033.22 ±1656.63 2611.17 ±1530.75 p = 0.130
Cognitive assessment
Free & Cued Serial Reminding Task, free recall score 30.28 ±6.76 31.80 ±6.21 27.94 ±6.96 p < 0.01**
Animal Fluency, total animals named 21.09 ±4.86 21.34 ±4.97 20.72 ±4.71 p = 0.466
Trailmaking A, seconds to complete 30.98 ±9.72 29.96 ±8.84 32.54 ±10.83 p = 0.148
Trailmaking B, seconds to complete 75.93 ±29.18 75.80 ±30.11 76.15 ±27.96 p = 0.944
Composite score −0.15 ±0.72 −0.05 ±0.73 −0.31 ±0.70 p < 0.05*
a

Means were compared using t-tests. Frequencies were compared using Fisher’s exact test.

b

The sample contains only Black and White races.

c

Data only available for 106 participants. Biomarker negative = 65 (61.32%), biomarker positive = 41 (38.68%).

APOE= Apolipoprotein E; CSF = Cerebrospinal fluid; MRI = Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001