Table 2 Demographic details for the Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia groups.
| AD | FTD | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N* studies | N* participants | Mean | SD | Range | N* studies | N* participants | Mean | SD | Range | |||
| N | 94 | 2936 | 31.2 | 41.1 | 4.0 | 236.0 | 94 | 1748 | 18.6 | 12.6 | 2.0 | 67.0 |
| Age (y) | 88 | 2792 | 70.6 | 5.1 | 55.7 | 79.9 | 89 | 1658 | 64.8 | 4.6 | 56.0 | 78.1 |
| Education (y) | 61 | 1878 | 11.4 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 16.3 | 62 | 1091 | 11.8 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 17.4 |
| Time since diagnosis (y) | 38 | 1237 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 9.8 | 38 | 752 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 8.4 |
| MMSE | 76 | 2506 | 21.4 | 3.0 | 8.9 | 26.6 | 75 | 1460 | 22.7 | 3.0 | 13.8 | 28.7 |
| CDR | 20 | 398 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 19 | 332 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 4.5 |
AD, Alzheimer's disease; CDR, Clinical Dementia Rating scale; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; MMSE, Mini‐Mental State Examination.
*The N differs between variables because not all studies provided data for each variable