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. 2024 Jan 7;19:2. doi: 10.1186/s13024-023-00689-2

Table 3.

P-tau biomarker means, mean fold-change, statistical tests and effect sizes between amyloid-PET positive and negative groups in TRIAD

Aβ- Aβ +  Log 2 Fold-change Comparison
t-value
p-value Effect Size
Immunoassay p-tau181 6.14 (10.31) 22.5 (16.0) 1.55 15.97  < 0.0001 1.71
MS p-tau181 1.12 (0.51) 1.62 (0.55) 0.53 8.54  < 0.0001 0.98
Immunoassay p-tau217 291.52 (260.33) 855.85 (599.7) 1.87 20.17  < 0.0001 2.32
MS p-tau217 0.11 (0.19) 0.37 (0.27) 1.71 17.90  < 0.0001 2.21
Immunoassay p-tau231 281.82 (298.21) 651.27 (264.6) 1.21 17.06  < 0.0001 1.84
MS p-tau231 0.11 (0.24) 0.47 (0.32) 2.13 18.60  < 0.0001 1.97

P-tau biomarker means are reported in pg./ml for the immunoassays, and in fmol/ml for the MS assays. T-tests were carried out using log-transformed p-tau biomarker data. Effect sizes are reported as Cohen’s d