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. 2013 May 27;2:746–758. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.05.008

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient groups.

AD FTLD Control Group difference
Whole group
N 21 14 13
Age 61.1 ± 6.7 60.8 ± 6.4 53.9 ± 6.0 5.8, 2, 0.006a
Sex (f/m) 12/9 7/7 6/7 0.4, 2, 0.809b
Education (years) 10.7 ± 3.1 11.6 ± 3.8 12.3 ± 3.1 1.0, 2, 0.368a
CDR 0.7 ± 0.3 0.8 ± 0.4 0.2 ± 0.3 13.9, 2, 0.000a
MMSEc 23.2 ± 3.9 24.4 ± 4.2 28.8 ± 1.3 4.5, 2, 0.019a



DemTect group
N 14 9 6
Age 61.5 ± 7.6 59.3 ± 7.4 51.2 ± 7.6 3.9, 2, 0.032a
Sex (f/m) 9/5 5/4 2/4 1.6, 2, 0.443b
Education (years) 11.1 ± 3.2 10.9 ± 3.5 13.0 ± 3.3 0.9, 2, 0.427a
CDR 0.8 ± 0.3 0.8 ± 0.3 0.3 ± 0.3 10.3, 2, 0.001a
MMSEc 24.3 ± 3.8 23.8 ± 4.3 28.0 ± 1.0 1.4, 2, 0.263 a
DemTect sum score 7.9 ± 3.4 7.3 ± 5.8 15.5 ± 2.9 8.3, 2, 0.002a
DemTect subscoresd
 Wordlist 1.43 ± 1.22 1.11 ± 1.05 2.67 ± 0.52 4.1, 2, 0.028a
 Number transcoding 1.64 ± 0.93 1.67 ± 1.32 2.50 ± 0.55 1.7, 2, 0.209a
 Supermarket task 1.71 ± 1.27 1.00 ± 1.41 4.00 ± 0.00 12.0, 2, 0.000a
 Digit span reverse 2.21 ± 0.98 1.89 ± 0.93 2.50 ± 0.84 0.8, 2, 0.462a
 Wordlist (delayed recall) 0.86 ± 0.77 1.67 ± 2.06 3.83 ± 1.84 8.3, 2, 0.002a

Note. All values given in mean ± standard deviation. AD = Alzheimer's disease, CDR = clinical dementia rating scale (Hughes et al., 1982), f = female, FTLD = frontotemporal lobar degeneration, m = male, MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination (Folstein et al., 1975), n = total number.

a

As tested with One-Way ANOVA: F, degrees of freedom (df), p.

b

As tested with two-tailed chi-square test: chi-square, df, p.

c

For twelve/four subjects MMSE was not available.

d

Transformed scores.