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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2013 Jan 1;36(3):475–486. doi: 10.3233/JAD-122212

Table 1.

Cohort characteristics.

Variable All non-demented Only CDR 0.5 non-demented

PPG (mean±SD (range) or % (N)) NACC-UDS (mean±SD (range) or % (N)) Cohort comparison (estimate, 95% CI) P-value PPG (mean±SD (range) or % (N)) NACC-UDS (mean±SD (range) or % (N)) Cohort comparison (estimate, 95% CI) P-value
N 358 6243 241 2263
Demographics
 Age (yrs) 73.5±5.2 (65,88) 76.9±7.3 (65,110) 3.39 (2.83,3.96)1 <.001 74.1±5.3 (65,88) 77.4±7.2 (65,110) 3.33 (2.60,4.07)1 <.001
 Male 44.1% (158) 41.1% (2568) 0.26 44.8% (108) 49.9% (1130) 0.13
 Race <.001 0.006
  Asian 2.5% (9) 2.4% (150) 2.9% (7) 3.3% (74)
  Black 5.6% (20) 13.0% (809) 5.4% (13) 12.4% (281)
  White 91.3% (327) 82.5% (5151) 90.9% (219) 81.0% (1833)
  Other/Unknown 0.6% (2) 2.1% (131) 0.8% (2) 3.3% (75)
 Education (yrs) 15.5±2.9 (5,24) 15.2±3.3 (0,29) −0.34 (−0.66,−0.03)1 0.033 15.5±3.0 (5,24) 14.8±3.7 (0,29) −0.71 (−1.12,−0.31)1 <.001
Clinical Dementia Rating
 CDR rating Distribution: <.001 N/A
  0 32.7% (117) 63.8% (3980) 0% (0) 0% (0)
  0.5 67.3% (241) 36.2% (2263) 100% (241) 100% (2263)
 CDR-SB 0.90±0.89 (0.0,3.5) 0.47±0.81 (0.0,5.5) −0.43 (−0.52,−0.33)1 <.001 1.33±0.77 (0.5,3.5) 1.26±0.89 (0.5,5.5) −0.07 (−0.17,0.04)1 0.21
 Memory rating Distribution: <.001 0.88
  0 33.0% (118) 64.6% (4034) 0.4% (1) 2.4% (54)
  0.5 59.8% (214) 31.1% (1939) 88.8% (214) 85.7% (1939)
  1 7.3% (26) 4.3% (267) 10.8% (26) 11.8% (267)
  2 0.0% (0) 0.0% (3) 0.0% (0) 0.1% (3)
Neuropsych scores
 MMSE 29.2±1.1 (24,30) 28.3±2.0 (7,30) −0.93 (−1.06,−0.81)1 <.001 29.1±1.2 (24,30) 27.3±2.4 (7,30) −1.74 (−1.92,−1.56)1 <.001
 Digit-span forwards 6.9±1.3 (4,9) 6.6±1.1 (0,8) −0.33 (−0.47,−0.19)1 <.001 6.8±1.3 (4,9) 6.4±1.2 (0,8) −0.44 (−0.61,−0.26)1 <.001
 Digit-span backwards 5.3±1.4 (0,8) 4.7±1.2 (0,7) −0.62 (−0.77,−0.47)1 <.001 5.2±1.4 (0,8) 4.4±1.2 (0,7) −0.77 (−0.96,−0.58)1 <.001
 Trail making B (sec) 103±53.1 (23,300) 114±65.9 (17,300) 11.2 (5.46,17.0)1 <.001 108±59.5 (32,300) 140±76.0 (22,300) 32.3 (24.1,40.5)1 <.001
 CVLT total 48.3±11.5 (15,75) N/A N/A . 46.6±11.7 (15,73) N/A N/A .
 SRT free 41.4±8.3 (10,59) N/A N/A . 40.6±8.8 (10,58) N/A N/A .
 Delayed logical memory N/A 10.4±5.0 (0.0,24.0) N/A . N/A 7.6±4.9 (0.0,23.0) N/A .
 Memory Z-score −.29±1.02 (−3.8,2.0) −.38±1.17 (−2.8,2.8) −0.09 (−0.20,0.02)1 0.102 −.43±1.06 (−3.8,1.7) −1.0±1.15 (−2.8,2.5) −0.61 (−0.76,−0.46)1 <.001
Follow-up characteristics
 2-yr timepoint to AD or censoring (yrs) 5.89±3.60 (0.8,12.1) 1.85±0.76 (0.4,4.0) −4.03 (−4.50,−3.57)1 <.001 5.90±3.74 (0.8,12.1) 1.67±0.71 (0.4,3.6) −4.23 (−4.83,−3.62)1 <.001
 CDR-SB slope to 2-yr timepoint (/yr) 0.14±0.29 (−0.5,1.3) 0.06±0.32 (−2.0,3.8) −0.08 (−0.12,−0.04)1 <.001 0.18±0.33 (−0.5,1.3) 0.03±0.47 (−2.0,2.6) −0.15 (−0.21,−0.08)1 <.001
 CDR-SB last obs 2-yr timepoint 1.23±1.11 (0.0,5.0) 0.65±1.31 (0.0,18.0) −0.58 (−0.70,−0.46)1 <.001 1.70±1.02 (0.0,5.0) 1.55±1.78 (0.0,18.0) −0.15 (−0.30,0.01)1 0.060
 MMSE slope to 2-yr timepoint (/yr) 0.00±0.48 (−1.5,1.8) −.10±0.86 (−3.9,10.6) −0.10 (−0.17,−0.03)1 0.005 −.01±0.52 (−1.5,1.8) −.19±1.11 (−3.4,10.6) −0.18 (−0.30,−0.07)1 0.002
 AD after 2-yr timepoint 25.5% (59) 5.5% (158) 1.15 (0.72,1.84)3 0.55 34.5% (51) 13.6% (103) 2.06 (1.26,3.37)3 0.004
1

Mean difference = mean(NACC-UDS) − mean(PPG)

2

Odds ratio = odds(NACC-UDS) / odds(PPG)

3

Hazard ratio = hazard(NACC-UDS) / hazard(PPG)