Skip to main content
. 2015 Dec 18;5(3):503–516. doi: 10.1159/000440859

Table 2.

Characteristics of patients and caregivers at inclusion

bvFTD (n = 36) AD (n = 22) PSP (n = 15) BP (n = 16) All controls1 (n = 53) p value2 (4 groups/2 groups)
Age, years 66.0 ± 8.3 65.4 ± 7.3 69.8± 5.3 61.0 ± 7.6 65.3 ± 7.6 0.010/0.51
Female sex 42% (n = 15) 45% (n = 10) 40% (n = 6) 69% (n = 11) 51% (n = 27) 0.30/0.52
Disease duration, years 4.5 ± 2.7 3.8 ± 1.3 3.0 ± 1.4 19.6 ± 15.6 8.4 ± 11.3 0.0001/0.30
MMS/30 23.6 ± 3.6 23.5 ± 2.5 24.2 ± 3.3 26.2 ± 2.7 24.5 ± 3.0 0.033/0.18
Caregiver age, years 59.1 ± 13.5 64.2 ± 6.6 69.2 ± 6.8 54.5 ± 15.6 62.8 ± 11.6 0.0032/0.19
1

Corresponds to the sum of the three control groups (AD, PSP and BP patients).

2

The first comparison was performed between the four groups of patients (bvFTD, AD, PSP and BP) while the second analysis compared bvFTD patients to all controls (AD, PSP and BP patients as a whole). p values <0.05 were considered significant and are written in bold.