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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Neurol. 2011 Apr 25;19(1):38–46. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03412.x

Table 2.

Demographic and psychiatric features

Psych Drugs Neurological P values
All NEUROL Neurodegeneration Lesion Vascular Psych vs. Drugs vs. All NEUROL NDEG vs. lesion vs. vascular LBD vs. AD vs. bvFTD
LBD AD bvFTD All NDEG
N 27 5 73 29 22 5 56 8 8 NA NA NA
Age at onset of Othello's (yrs.) 52.1 (15.0) 41.4 (16.3) 71.2 (12.5) 70.7 (10.6) 75.6 (11.3) 58.6 (14.9) 71.5 (12.1) 63.8 (17.0) 77.5 (5.8) <0.001 0.08 0.01
Frequency of female gender 10 (37%) 2 (40%) 28 (38%) 7 (24%) 12 (55%) 3 (60%) 22 (39%) 2 (25%) 3 (38%) 0.92 0.41 0.09
Frequency of hallucinations 6 (22%) 1 (20%) 37 (50%) 22 (76%) 6 (27%) 2 (40%) 30 (54%) 1 (13%) 5 (63%) 0.02 0.07 0.002
Frequency of other delusions 10 (37%) 2 (40%) 36 (49%) 12 (41%) 12 (55%) 2 (40%) 26 (46%) 4 (50%) 5 (63%) 0.53 0.69 0.62

Data are shown as number (%) for categorical data, and mean (standard deviation) for age at onset of Othello's syndrome. AD = Alzheimer's disease, bvFTD = behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; LBD = Lewy body disease; NEUROL = Neurological; NDEG = Neurodegenerative; Psych = Psychiatric

PD patients are included in the LBD including those with dopamine agonist associated Othello's syndrome