. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2013 May 21;10(2):179–186. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2013.03.002

Table 3.

. Baseline characteristics of the samples included in the meta-analyses

Sample	N	AD-N	Max Follow-up	Average follow-up	Age	Females%	Education	Minority
Rush Biracial¹³	1064	170	6	^†	74 (9.6)	62%	12.9(6.3)	50%
Rush MAP¹⁴	648	55	7	3	81 (6.9)	74%	14.6(2.9)	2%
ROS¹⁵	904	176	12	^†	74–80 (6.5)	68%-71%	18 (3.3)	8%
GEM¹⁶	767	116	7	6	79 (3.1)	42%	^†	8%
BLSA	1671	90	22	12	57 (16.0)	49%	16.7 (2.5)	29%

Rush MAP = Rush Memory and Aging Project; ROS= Religious Order Study; GEM = Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory study; BLSA=Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.

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See original study