Table 2.
Selected demographic and neuropathologic characteristics of 371 cerebral hemispheres.
Total number of subjects, n | 371 |
Specimen source | |
--Memory and Aging Project (MAP), n (%) | 229 (62%) |
--Religious Orders Study (ROS), n (%) | 142 (38%) |
MRI scanner, n (%) | |
--GE | 95 (26%) |
--Siemens | 88 (24%) |
--Philips | 188 (51%) |
Age at death, y (SD) | 89.6 (6.2) |
Sex, n (%) | |
--Male | 111 (30%) |
--Female | 260 (70%) |
Education, y (SD) | 15.9 (3.6) |
Right hemisphere, n (%) | 175 (47%) |
Postmortem interval to imaging, days (SD) | 46.9 (25.4) |
NIA Reagan (AD pathology), n (%) | |
--None or low | 126 (34%) |
--Intermediate | 168 (45%) |
--High | 77 (21%) |
Lewy bodies, n (%) | |
--Limbic | 33 (9%) |
--Neocortical | 42 (11%) |
--Total, any location | 75 (20%) |
Gross infarcts, n (%) | |
--Chronic, only one | 61 (16%) |
--Chronic, more than one | 67 (18%) |
--Subacute, only one | 42 (11%) |
--Subacute, more than one | 11 (3%) |
--Acute, only one | 15 (4%) |
--Acute, more than one | 6 (2%) |
Microscopic infarcts, n (%) | |
--Chronic, only one | 70 (19%) |
--Chronic, more than one | 38 (10%) |
--Subacute, only one | 21 (6%) |
--Subacute, more than one | 4 (1%) |
--Acute, only one | 14 (4%) |
--Acute, more than one | 3 (1%) |
Hippocampal sclerosis, n (%) | 80 (22%) |