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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Neurol. 2011 Mar;68(3):343–350. doi: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.375

Table 1.

Characteristics at study entry of participants in legacy data sample.

Demographic, Clinical and Genetic Development cohort (n=147) Replication cohort (n=200)

Mean (SD) age 72.0 (5.6) 73.0 (5.6)

Mean (SD) years of education 14.8 (2.8) 16.0 (2.9)

Female (%) 61.2 54.0

Non-white race (%) 5.4 11.0

Marital status (%)
 - married 60.5 61.5
 - widowed 27.9 17.0
 - separated/divorced 6.8 13.5
 - never married 4.8 8.0

History of hypertension (%) 36.1 42.5

History of diabetes (%) 4.1 4.5

Current or past smoking (%) 57.5 56.0

APOE ε4 carrier status (%) 29.2 29.3

Neuropsychological, in Mean (SD)

MMSE 29.2 (1.1) 29.2 (1.1)

CVLT Total Score 50.9 (10.5) 46.7 (12.0)

CVLT Percent Retention 82.6 (18.3) 80.8 (23.5)

Time to Complete Trails B 111.3 (67.3) 98.4 (48.9)

Phonemic Fluency (total of F, A, S) 45.6 (12.3) 43.7 (13.6)

Digit Span Backwards 5.4 (1.5) 5.2 (1.4)

CDR Global Rating (n [%])

CDR = 0 37 (25.2) 75 (37.5)
CDR = 0.5 110 (74.8) 125 (62.5)