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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2015 Jan 5;21(3):271–276. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2014.12.027

Figure 1. Change of predicted cognitive test scores over time in PD patients during Phase 2.

Figure 1

Data shown are the mean cognitive scores predicted from CSF biomarkers levels (low, mean, high) at the beginning of Phase 2 based on output from a mixed linear model; sex, education, and age at the beginning of Phase 2, final Phase 1 MMSE score, average UPDRS total and cognitive scores over 6 months prior to the beginning of Phase 2 were controlled as covariates. Blue lines indicate predicted cognitive scores by the mean levels of CSF biomarkers, green lines indicate predicted scores by low levels (mean – 1 SD) of CSF biomarkers, and red lines indicate predicted scores by high levels (mean + 1 SD) of CSF biomarkers. A: CSF p-tau vs SDMT, low p-tau can predict a 0.37/year decline of SDMT, mean p-tau can predict a decline of 0.97/year, high p-tau can predict a decline of 1.58/year; B: CSF p-tau/Aβ42 vs SDMT (low – 0.43/year, mean – 0.97/year, high – 1.50/year); C: CSF p-tau vs SRT-total Recall (low – 0.78/year, mean – 1.12/year, high – 1.45/year); D: CSF p-tau/Aβ42 vs. SRT-total Recall (low – 0.77/year, mean –1.10/year, high –1.44/year). SRT: Selective Reminding Test; SDMT: Symbol Digit Modalities Test