Table 2.

Hippocampal cohort group characteristics.

Variable	Control	VaD
Number	8	10
Age	82 (69–94)	84 (72–98)
Male sex, n (%)	2 (20)	4 (40)
Post-mortem delay (h)	38 (29.5–44.25)	35 (20–54)
Brain weight (g)	1,201 (1032–1,345)	1,211 (1060–1,460)
Water content (%)	82.2 (78.7–85.5)	82.8 (78.7–86.3)
Wet-wt/dry-wt	5.71 (5.10–6.32)	5.94 (5.32–6.56)

Values are age, post-mortem delay, brain weight and water content, mean (range); wet-wt/dry-wt ratio, mean (±95% CI) averaged across all samples. After the controls with renal failure were removed, the cohort no longer contained the same number of males per group. All other differences were non-significant.