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. 2023 May 22;12:27. doi: 10.1186/s40035-023-00356-y

Table 4.

Performance of cortical thickness signature scores with the hazard ratio for total conversion and sensitivity/specificity for differentiating dementia-first vs. motor-first conversion in iRBD

Total disease conversion in iRBD Hazard ratio [95% Confidence interval]
MRI (DLB-pattern) 2.27 [0.70, 7.61]
MRI(Mean cortical thickness) 9.33 [1.16, 74.12]
18F-FP-CIT PET (posterior putamen SUVR < 0.65) 8.65 [2.54, 29.41]
Hyposmia (B-SIT) 4.38 [1.47, 13.08]
Objective motor examination* 2.89 [0.91, 9.18]
Dementia-first (n = 7) vs Parkinsonism-first (n = 10) among the converters Overall discrimination
Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Diagnostic accuracy (%)
MRI (DLB-pattern) 85.7 90 88.2
MRI (Mean cortical thickness) 85.7 0 35.3
18F-FP-CIT PET (posterior putamen SUVR < 0.65) 57.1 10 29.4
Hyposmia (B-SIT) 66.7 33.3 31.3
Objective motor examination* 85.7 30.0 58.2

*Objective motor examination was defined by UPDRS part III score > 3 excluding action tremor[1]

AD Alzheimer’s dementia, B-SIT Brief smell identification test, DLB Dementia with Lewy bodies, iRBD Idiopathic rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder, SUVR Standardized uptake ratio

Sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy were calculated by detection of dementia-first converters among total converters as follows

a = number of dementia-first converters with positive biomarker

b = number of total dementia-converters

c = number of motor-first converters with negative biomarker

d = number of total motor-first converters

(a/b for sensitivity, c/d for specificity and (a + c)/(a + b + c + d) for diagnostic accuracy)