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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Neurol. 2012 Jul;69(7):836–841. doi: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.85

Table 2.

CSF Biomarker Data

Mean (SD)
E/C/ALA (n = 24) CoQ (n = 20) Placebo (n = 22)
A342 level at baseline, pg/mL 190 (43) 185 (54) 201 (57)
A342 level change −8 (23) −15 (31) −6 (37)
Tau level at baseline, pg/mL 123 (60) 109 (64) 114 (84)
Tau level change −23 (39) −9 (21) −12 (19)
P-tau181 level at baseline, pg/mL 68 (33) 70 (37) 58 (35)
P-tau181 level change −6 (19) −4 (17) 0.5 (19)
F2-isoprostane level at baseline, pg/mL 38 (15) 34 (15) 35 (12)
F2-isoprostane level change −7 (10)a 0 (8) 0 (6)

Abbreviations: CoQ, coenzyme Q; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; E/C/ALA, vitamin E plus vitamin C plus α-lipoic acid.

a

P = .04, analysis of covariance, adjusted for multiple comparisons.