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. 2024 Jan 17;10(2):e24701. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24701

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data of patients with CSVD and healthy controls.

Patients with CSVD (n = 22) Healthy controls (n = 20) t/χ2 p value
Age (years) 63.182 (7.992)a 59.700 (4.378)a 1.772 0.086
Sex (male/female) 13/9 10/10 0.349 0.554
Education level 3.566 0.488
illiterate 3 1
primary school 7 6
junior high school 8 8
senior high school 1 4
university 3 1
MoCA total scores 23.364 (4.776)a / / /
visuospatial/executive 4.000 (2.000, 5.000)b / / /
naming 3.000 (2.000, 3.000)b / / /
attention 1.500 (0.000, 4.000)b / / /
language 6.000 (5.000, 6.000)b / / /
abstraction 3.000 (2.000, 3.000)b / / /
delayed recall 2.000 (1.000, 2.000)b / / /
orientation 6.000 (6.000, 6.000)b / / /

CSVD: cerebral small vascular disease; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

a

normally distributed data, mean (standard deviation).

b

non‐normally distributed data, median (interquartile range).