Table 1.

Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of Alzheimer Patients and Controls

Group	Braak Staging	Age (y)	Gender	PMI	Cause of Death
AD	I–II	91	M	8	cardiac arrest
	I–II	78	F	6	pneumonia
	I–II	69	F	20	*
	I–II	66	F	13	sudden death
	I–II	81	M	7	urinary bladder rupture
	I–II	57	F	9	pneumonia and metastatic breast cancer
	I–II	84	M	2	*
	I–II	82	M	*	dehydration
	V–VI	82	F	16	pneumonia
	V–VI	72	F	4	*
	V–VI	83	M	9	*
	V–VI	81	F	3	acute aspiration pneumonia
	V–VI	60	M	10	pneumonia
	V–VI	84	M	2	pneumonia
	V–VI	76	F	*	pneumonia and kidney infection
	V–VI	64	F	12	pneumonia
Control		67	M	23	diverticulitis
		62	F	17	pneumonia with sepsis
		61	M	21	metastatic cancer
		77	M	7	acute necrotizing pancreatitis
		63	F	19	subarachnoid hemorrhage/homicide
		52	M	*	sudden death after shunt
		86	M	13	multiple myeloma
		72	F	*	*

Note: Braak I–II=mild AD; Braak V–VI = advanced AD; PMI = postmortem interval in hours.

^*unavailable.