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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Imaging Behav. 2012 Dec;6(4):517–527. doi: 10.1007/s11682-012-9176-1

Table 1.

Demographic, clinical, CSF and MRI data by baseline diagnosis (n=800 with complete EF data)

Normal MCI AD p-valuec
Sample size
N Baseline 229 390 181
N 6 months 220 367 163
N 12 months 209 352 132
N 18 months 0 310 0
N 24 months 197 286 93
N 36 months 182 221 0
Demographics
 Female 48 % 36 % 48 % .003
  Age (years), mean±SDa 76.0±5.0 74.9±7.5 75.7±7.4 <.001
  Education (years), mean±SD 16.0±2.9 15.7±3.0 14.7±3.2 <.001
  Any APOE ε4 alleles 27 % 54 % 65 % <.001
Baseline clinical data: mean ±SD
 ADNI-EF 0.70±0.67 −0.03±0.77 −0.86±0.80 <.001
 Category Fluency (Animals + Vegetables) 34.6±8.1 26.7±7.3 20.5±7.5 <.001
 Clock Drawing 4.7±0.6 4.2±1.0 3.5±1.3 <.001
 WAIS-R Digit Symbol 45.7±10.2 36.9±11.2 27.5±12.4 <.001
 Digit Span Backwards 7.4±2.2 6.2±2.0 5.0±1.8 <.001
 Trails A 36.4±13.2 44.3±21.7 64.7±34.5 <.001
 Trails B 89.2±44.3 131.0±73.5 198.0±86.9 <.001
 Trails B–Trails A 52.8±38.8 86.7±63.3 133.6±75.1 <.001
Baseline MRI datab
 White matter hyperintensities (cm3) 0.68±2.34 0.60±1.09 0.79±1.16 0.660
 Cortical thicknesses (mm):
 Caudal middle frontal 2.3±0.2 2.2±0.2 2.2±0.2 <.001
 Rostral middle frontal 2.2±0.1 2.1±0.2 2.1±0.2 <.001
 Superior middle frontal 2.5±0.2 2.4±0.2 2.4±0.2 <.001
 Lateral orbito-frontal 2.5±0.2 2.5±0.2 2.4±0.2 <.001
 Medial orbito-frontal 2.3±0.1 2.3±0.2 2.2±0.2 <.001
 Pars-triangularis 2.2±0.2 2.2±0.2 2.1±0.2 <.001
N complete data for MRI
  measurements above
152 216 77
Baseline CSF datac
 Total tau>93 pg/ml 18 % 44 % 66 % <.001
 Aβ1-42<192 pg/ml 38 % 75 % 90 % <.001
 PTau181P>23 pg/ml 35 % 70 % 87 % <.001
 AD cluster 36 % 73 % 94 % <.001
N complete CSF data for CSF
  measurements above
114 190 94
a

SD = Standard Deviation

b

Only MRI assessments with an overall quality control of “Pass” were included

c

Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables, ANOVA for continuous variables

d

Total protein (tau), beta amyloid 1-42 (Aβ1-42), and phosphorylated-tau protein 181 (pTau181p) dichotomized as in Shaw et al. 2009. AD Cluster from de Meyer et al. 2010