Table 2. Characteristics of individuals with and without depressive symptoms and with and without major depression at baseline according to incident dementia diagnosis (n = 888).

Characteristic	No incident dementia (n = 705)						Incident dementia ( = 183)
	With depressive symptoms (n = 98)	Without depressive symptoms (n = 607)	p value	With major depression (n = 7)	Without major depression (n = 698)	p value	With depressive symptoms (n = 30)	Without depressive symptoms (n = 153)	p value	With major depression (n = 4)	Without major depression (n = 179)	p value
Age, mean (s.d.)	81.4 (5.0)	80.5 (4.4)	0.069	81.5 (5.3)	80.6 (4.5)	0.592	83.9 (4.5)	83.8 (4.7)	0.982	82.0 (2.8)	83.9 (4.7)	0.271
Female gender, n (%)	88 (89.8)	411 (67.7)	<0.001	7 (100.0)	492 (70.5)	0.088	27 (90.0)	126 (82.4)	0.301	3 (75.0)	150 (83.8)	0.638
Cognitive state: MMSE, mean (s.d.)	27.0 (2.1)	27.5 (1.9)	<0.05	27.1 (1.3)	27.4 (1.9)	0.714	25.8 (2.1)	25.9 (2.1)	0.827	25.8 (0.5)	25.9 (2.1)	0.870