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Published in final edited form as: Neurology. 2002 Mar 26;58(6):928–935. doi: 10.1212/wnl.58.6.928

Table 3.

Metabolite concentrations in white matter lesions and normal white matter

Metabolite^*	Tissue	AD	Control	AD-control^†
[NAA]	WML	1.01 ± 0.54	0.99 ± 0.43	+2
	WM	1.16 ± 0.22	1.19 ± 0.24	−3
[Cho]	WML	0.55 ± 0.32	0.51 ± 0.38	+8
	WM	0.42 ± 0.11	0.44 ± 0.07	−4
[Cr]	WML	0.48 ± 0.19	0.45 ± 0.29	+7
	WM	0.45 ± 0.10	0.47 ± 0.09	−4

Concentration in arbitrary units.

^†

Percent change in 41 patients with AD compared with 40 cognitively normal subjects.

WML = white matter lesion; WM = white matter (normal).