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. 2009 Dec 22;9:63. doi: 10.1186/1471-2377-9-63

Table 2.

Comparisons of CSF neural biomarkers across groups.

sAPPα sAPPβ 1-42 t-tau p-tau
Overall ANOVA: < 0.0001 < 0.0001 < 0.0001 < 0.0001 < 0.0001

Post Hoc Comparisons:
ADC vs NA < 0.001 < 0.001 ns < 0.05 ns
OIs vs NA < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 ns ns
ADC vs OIs ns ns ns ns ns
NA vs Cont y ns ns ns ns ns

AD vs Cont o ns ns < 0.01 < 0.001 < 0.001
AD vs ADC < 0.001 < 0.001 ns < 0.01 < 0.001

Cont y vs Cont o < 0.05 ns ns ns < 0.01

ns = not significant

* All results were also compared using non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test that yielded similar results. Statistical tests were also conducted with age adjustment, which did not change any of the results reported above, except for that differences between younger and older controls disappeared.