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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gerontology. 2016 Nov 18;63(2):189–200. doi: 10.1159/000452309

Table 1.

General characteristics of the study population.

Variable Healthy
(n = 11)
aMCI
(n = 10)
AD
(n = 9)
p Value
Age, years (mean±SD) 80.5±6.3 85.2±4.6 80.8±6.6 0.152
Female, n (%) 6.0 (54.5) 5.0 (50.0) 2.0 (22.2) 0.305
Height, cm (mean±SD) 168.9±9.5 161.0±10.6 172.5±10.7 0.058
Body mass, kg (mean±SD) 67.6±14.0 69.4±10.7 83.9±25.7 0.112
BMI, kg/m2 (mean±SD) 23.5±3.4 26.3±3.7 27.7±6.4 0.130
Education level, years (mean±SD) 15.2±3.0 13.8±2.3 14.6±1.8 0.451
MoCA score, 0–30 (mean±SD) 27.7±1.8 23.3±2.9 16.6±4.5 <0.001*
TMT A, s (mean±SD) 34.8±10.5 54.8±12.9 68.8±25.5 0.001*
TMT B, s (mean±SD) 77.7±32.9 164.3±70.2 278.0±157.5 <0.001*
Cognitive impairment, n (%)** 1.0 (9.1) 7.0 (70.0) 9.0 (100.0) <0.001*
Depression, n (%)*** 1.0 (9.1) 1.0 (10.0) 1.0 (11.1) 0.989
History of fall, n (%) 1.0 (9.1) 5.0 (50.0) 3.0 (33.3) 0.120
Prefrail/frail, n (%) 6.0 (54.5) 8.0 (80.0) 8.0 (88.9) 0.038*

BMI: Body Mass Index

MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment

TMT: Trail-Making Task

aMCI: amnestic mild cognitive impairment

AD: Alzheimer disease

*

p ≤ 0.05

**

According to MoCA score with cut-off of 25 or smaller

***

According to CES-D score with cut-off of 16 or greater