TABLE 1.
Participants’ sociodemographic and cognitive profiles.
| Pairwise comparisons | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons with AD N = 32 | Persons with bvFTD N = 32 | Healthy controls N = 27 | Statistics (all groups) | Groups | Estimate | p‐Value | |
| Sociodemographic profiles | |||||||
| Sex (F:M) | 18:14 | 17:15 | 19:8 | – | AD‐HCs | 0.72 | 0.40a |
| bvFTD‐HCs | 1.18 | 0.28a | |||||
| Handedness (L:R) | 3:23 | 0:25 | 1:19 | – | AD‐HCs | 0.06 | 0.80a |
| bvFTD‐HCs | 0.01 | 0.91a | |||||
| Years of age | 75.75 (5.63) | 68.87 (7.81) | 72.30 (7.34) | F = 7.70 p < 0.001b | AD‐HCs | 1.90 | 0.11c |
| bvFTD‐HCs | ‐1.87 | 0.12c | |||||
| Years of education | 11.63 (4.20) | 13.20 (5.01) | 13.59 (3.78) | F = 1.72 p = 0.19b | AD‐HCs | ‐1.72 | 0.16c |
| bvFTD‐HCs | ‐0.34 | 0.92c | |||||
| Cognitive profiles | |||||||
| MoCA | 15.41 (4.98) | 17.92 (7.61) | 25.70 (3.27) | F = 25.92 p < 0.001b | AD‐HCs | ‐6.95 | < 0.001c |
| bvFTD‐HCs | ‐5.12 | < 0.001c | |||||
| IFS | 14.41 (4.96) | 15.66 (7.37) | 21.43 (3.06) | F = 13.38 p < 0.001b | AD‐HCs | ‐4.90 | < 0.001c |
| bvFTD‐HCs | ‐3.88 | 0.002c | |||||
Note: Data presented as mean (SD), except for sex and handedness. (a) p‐Values calculated via chi‐squared test (χ2). (b) p‐Values calculated via independent measures ANCOVA; (c) p‐Values calculated via Dunnett's test.
Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer's dementia; bvFTD, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; HC, healthy control; IFS, INECO Frontal Screening; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment.