Table 3.
Pure GA (P) | Healthy controls (38) | Statistics, post hoc | |
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Gray matter (vol %) | 49.0 ± 4.6 | 49.6 ± 4.2 | F = 0.93, p = 0.43 |
White matter (vol %) | 42.6 ± 5.2 | 41.3 ± 3.9 | F = 1.01, p = 0.39 |
CSF (vol %) | 8.4 ± 2.5 | 9.1 ± 2.2 | F = 0.83, p = 0.48 |
NAA | 14.3 ± 2.2 | 14.3 ± 2.5 | F = 1.22, p = 0.27 |
Cho | 2.9 ± 1.2 | 3.6 ± 1.0 | F = 8.52, p = 0.0049* |
Cr + PCr | 10.3 ± 2.3 | 10.7 ± 1.4 | F = 1.14, p = 0.29 |
mI | 8.5 ± 3.9 | 9.4 ± 4.1 | F = 1.73, p = 0.19 |
Glx | 6.3 ± 1.9 | 4.7 ± 1.4 | F = 1.38, p = 0.26 |
ANCOA, covariate: age, NAA: N-acetyl-aspartate, Cr + PCr: creatine + phosphocreatine, Cho: choline compounds, mI: myo-inositol, and Glx: glutamate, glutamine.