. 2014 Dec 5;6(9):71. doi: 10.1186/s13195-014-0071-4

Table 1.

Demographics of patients with corticobasal syndrome (CBS), non-hallucinating dementia with Lewy bodies (VHF-DLB) and respective matched control groups

Demographic and clinical features	CBS	CBS controls	VHF-DLB	VHF-DLB controls
Demographic and clinical features	(number =31)	(number =31)	(number =30)	(number =30)
Gender	19 F 12 M^a	19 F 12 M	10 F 20 M^a	10 F 20 M
Handedness	29R 2 L	29R 2 L	29R 1 L	28R 2 L
Age of onset (mean ± SEM years)	64.7 ± 1.6	N/A	68.6 ± 1.3	N/A
Age at investigation (mean ± SEM years)	68.5 ± 1.7	70.0 ± 1.2	72.3 ± 1.7	73.1 ± 1.2
Duration of symptoms (mean ± SEM years)	3.8 ± 0.4	N/A	3.7 ± 0.4	N/A
Years of education (mean ± SEM years)^b	12.4 ± 0.6^bc	14.5 ± 0.5^b	14.6 ± 0.7^c	15.17 ± 0.6
Body side most affected	16R 15 L	N/A	N/A	N/A

^aFisher’s Exact Test, P =0.01; ^bt[60] = −2.7, P =0.008; ^ct[60] =2.4, P =0.02. F, female; L, left; M, male; N/A, not applicable; R, right; SEM, standard error of the mean.