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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Neurology. 2004 Jul 27;63(2):220–227. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000130531.90205.ef

Table 1.

Baseline comparisons of converters vs nonconverters

Variable Total, n = 52 Converters, n = 17 Nonconverters, n = 35 p value
Age, y  72.8 (7.8)  75.1 (7.9)  71.7 (7.6) 0.15
Female, % 29    41    23    0.20
Education  14.8 (2.7)  14.5 (2.6)  14.9 (2.8) 0.60
APOE4, % 59    73    53    0.20
Composite vascular risk   1.40 (1.50)   0.94 (1.03)   1.67 (1.60) 0.16
Clinical stroke, % 23    12    29    0.30
cGM* 37 (3)  33 (2)  38 (3)   0.005
HC*   .30 (0.06)   .26 (0.05)   .31 (0.05)  0.0014
WMH*  1.0 (1.0)  0.9 (1.1)  1.1 (1.5) 0.60
MRI lacunes, % 44    35    49    0.40
Lacunar volume*   0.04 (0.08)   0.03 (0.06)   0.05 (0.09) 0.30
Memory  77.4 (16.5)  62.2 (9.5)  84.8 (14.0)  <0.0001
Executive function  82.7 (17.1)  78.7 (15.5)  84.6 (17.7) 0.20

Values are means (SD) or percentages.

*

Expressed as percentage intracranial volume.

cGM = cortical gray matter; HC = hippocampal volume; WMH = white matter hyperintensity volume.