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. 2016 Jun 13;8:27. doi: 10.1186/s13195-016-0192-z

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study population before cerebrospinal fluid biomarker diagnosis

Study population BNA population BNA/study population comparison
Overall Psychiatric disorder p Value Overall Psychiatric disorder p value p Value
Number of patients 1015 69 (6.79) 317,515 24,561 (7.74) 0.29
Age, years, mean (SD) 69.2 (10.03) 64.57 (11.57) 0.0018 76.86 (12.18) 71.43 (13.82) <0.0001 <0.0001
Female sex, n (%) 504 (49.7) 43 (61.4) 0.056 199,085 (62.7) 17,661 (71.91) <0.0001 0.46
Final diagnosis of AD, n (%) 395 (38.9) 13 (18.8) 0.009 70,651 (22.25) 536 (2.18) <0.0001 <0.0001
Changed diagnosis, n (%) 231 (24.1) 19 (27.5) 0.62 1821 (7.41) <0.0001
Improvement in diagnosis confidence level, % 19.6 25.2 0.027
Changed treatment, n (%) 437 (43.1) 24 (34.8) 0.13

AD Alzheimer’s disease, BNA Banque Nationale Alzheimer