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. 2013 Sep 9;5:50. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00050

Table 2.

Relation of the neuropathologies with rate of decline in four cognitive systems*.

Term Estimate (SE) p
Episodic memory
Tangles –0.0045 (0.0009) p < 0.001
Amyloid Ns
Gross infarcts Ns
Microinfarcts Ns
Neocortical Lewy bodies Ns
Semantic memory
Tangles –0.0031 (0.0006) p < 0.001
Amyloid –0.0012 (0.0006) p = 0.044
Gross infarcts –0.0139 (0.0057) p = 0.016
Microinfarcts Ns
Neocortical Lewy bodies –0.0303 (0.0094) p = 0.001
Working memory
Tangles Ns
Amyloid –0.0021 (0.0007) p = 0.004
Gross infarcts Ns
Microinfarcts Ns
Neocortical Lewy bodies –0.0221 (0.0109) p = 0.042
Perceptual speed
Tangles Ns
Amyloid Ns
Gross infarcts Ns
Microinfarcts Ns
Neocortical Lewy bodies –0.0784 (0.0160) p < 0.001
*

Derived from random coefficient models including terms for age, sex, education, time, all of the neuropathologies, and the interactions of demographics and the neuropathologies with time.