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. 2023 Sep 11;13:14957. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42354-0

Table 4.

Characteristics of patients with various dementia etiologies, and comparisons of diagnostic groups.

AD,
n 76
FTD,
n 6
DLB,
n 12
p* AD versus non-AD FTD versus non-FTD DLB versus non-DLB
p** p** p**
Age, years 72.3 (7.5) 64.7 (6.1) 70.2 (8.5) 0.050 0.048 0.023 0.505
Female, n (%) 41 (53.9%) 4 (66.7%) 2 (16.7%) 0.039 0.106 0.399 0.013
Education, years (n 84) 12.9 (3.5) 16.4 (3.1) 14.4 (3.4) 0.055 0.030 0.042 0.285
BAG, years 2.7 (5.2) 8.7 (4.9) 2.6 (3.0) 0.019 0.159 0.005 0.574
Forebrain parenchyma/ICV (%) 58.2 (3.2) 57.4 (2.2) 60.6 (2.2) 0.034 0.117 0.380 0.012
Hippocampi/ICV (%) 0.37 (0.07) 0.37 (0.04) 0.40 (0.06) 0.450 0.323 0.893 0.205
WMH/ICV (%) 0.61 (0.58) 0.30 (0.35) 0.53 (0.54) 0.419 0.295 0.215 0.574

*Three group comparison using ANOVA/χ2.

**t test.

AD Alzheimer’s disease, FTD frontotemporal dementia, DLB dementia with Lewy bodies, BAG brain age gap, ICV intracranial volume, WMH white matter hypointensities.

Significant values are in bold.