Table 2. Characteristics of the sample.
YO= young-old; MO= middle-old; OO= oldest-old; F=female; PMI=postmortem interval
| Non Demented | Demented | Total | p-value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YO | MO | OO | Total | p-value | YO | MO | OO | Total | p-value | |||
| N | 21 | 18 | 18 | 57 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 54 | 111 | |||
|
Age (mean, SD) |
74.7 (3.5) |
85.2 (2.2) |
93.2 (3.3) |
83.8 (8.3) |
<0.005 | 76.9 (3.1) |
85.4 (2.0) |
95.9 (4.1) |
86.9 (8.3) |
<0.005 | 85.3 (8.4) |
0.053 |
| Sex (%F) | 52.4 | 61.1 | 72.2 | 61.4 | 0.45 | 80.0 | 78.9 | 85.0 | 81.5 | 0.88 | 71.2 | 0.02 |
|
PMI (minutes: means, SD) |
879 (585) |
637 (603) |
444 (367) |
665 (554) |
0.046 | 878 (768) |
298 (277) |
365 (286) |
484 (522) |
0.001 | 577 (544) |
0.08 |
| PH | 6.4 (.34) |
6.3 (.32) |
6.4 (.26) |
6.4 (.31) |
0.57 | 6.3 (.22) |
6.3 (.28) |
6.3 (.29) |
6.3 (.26) |
0.78 | 6.3 (.29) |
0.07 |