Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and neuropsychological scores.
| Characteristics and Measures | Lower education |
SD | Higher education |
SD | Significance (p-value)* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 32 | 26 | |||
| Age (years) | 71.8 | ± 7.0 | 73.8 | ±6.3 | 0.25 |
| Female sex (no.) | 18 | 9 | 0.1 | ||
| Education (years) | 11.5 | ± 1.2 | 16.2 | ±1.7 | < 0.001 |
| APOE status (no.) | |||||
| 2,3 | 2 | 1 | 0.68 | ||
| 3,3 | 12 | 6 | 0.24 | ||
| 3,4 | 13 | 14 | 0.32 | ||
| 4,4 | 5 | 5 | 0.72 | ||
| First degree family history of AD (no.) | 9 | 13 | 0.09 | ||
| MMSE (score range 0-30) | 21.1 | ± 5.2 | 24.7 | ± 4.2 | 0.033 |
MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination;
*
Chi-Square tests for Gender and APOE status