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. 2024 Feb 21;30(4):1085–1095. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-02869-z

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

BioFINDER-2 Knight ADRC
All (n = 1,422) Cognitively unimpaired (n = 720) Cognitively impaired (n = 702) All (n = 337) Cognitively unimpaired (n = 287) Cognitively impaired (n = 50)
Age, years 69.3 (10.6) 66.3 (12.1) 72.3 (7.9) 69.8 (8.3) 69.0 (8.3) 74.6 (6.5)
Women, n (%) 708 (49.8%) 393 (54.6%) 315 (44.9%) 175 (51.9%) 155 (54.0%) 20 (40.0%)
APOE-ε4 carriers, n (%)a 659 (51.5%) 278 (47.8%) 381 (54.6%) 128 (38.0%) 101 (35.2%) 27 (54.0%)
Years of educationb 12.7 (3.9) 12.9 (3.6) 12.4 (4.2) 16.4 (2.4) 16.5 (2.3) 15.6 (2.6)
Race (Black/White/Other), n N.A. N.A. N.A. 24/308/5 24/259/4 0/49/1
MMSEc 26.7 (3.9) 28.9 (1.2) 24.4 (4.4) 28.8 (2.1) 29.3 (1.1) 26.1 (3.7)
Aβ PET, Centiloidsd 19.2 (41.8) 7.99 (31.9) 45.0 (49.7) 25.0 (35.6) 17.3 (27.2) 69.3 (44.8)
Aβ PET positive, n (%)d 258 (25.8%) 107 (15.3%) 151 (49.7%) 85 (25.2%) 48 (16.7%) 37 (74.0%)
Tau PET, SUVRe 1.36 (0.47) 1.18 (0.17) 1.56 (0.59) 1.20 (0.19) 1.16 (0.09) 1.47 (0.35)
Tau PET positivee 355 (25.0%) 49 (6.8%) 306 (43.6%) 35 (10.4%) 7 (2.4%) 28 (56.0%)
AD diagnosis, n (%) 346 (24.3%) 0 (0%) 346 (49.3%) 50 (14.8%) 0 (0%) 50 (100%)
Severity of cognitive impairment (CU/MCI/dementia) 720/366/336 720/0/0 0/366/336 287/37/13 287/0/0 0/37/13

All measures represent mean (s.d.) unless otherwise stated. Percentages are calculated from the sample available for each variable. Aβ PET positivity was defined as Centiloids ≥ 37. Tau PET positivity was defined using previously validated in-house thresholds (SUVR > 1.32 for both cohorts). Race was not collected in the BioFINDER-2 cohort.

a: 143 participants missing in BioFINDER-2

b: 31 participants missing in BioFINDER-2

c: 1 participant missing in BioFINDER-2

d: 421 participants missing in BioFINDER-2

e: 54 participants missing in BioFINDER-2

f: 432 participants missing in BioFINDER-2

CU, cognitively unimpaired; MCI, mild cognitive impairment; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; N.A., not applicable; SUVR, standardized uptake value ratio.