Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of 136 outpatients over 60 years old and their caregivers attended at the Neurology Department of Clínica Internacional in Lima, Peru.
| Characteristics | Not dementia (n=30) |
Alzheimer’s dementia (n=44) |
Frontotemporal dementia (n=18) |
Vascular dementia (n=44) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | p-value | ||||||
| Patients | Age (years)* | 67.13 [2.29] | 71.87 [5.17] | <0.01 | 67.72 [3.10] | 1.00** | 69.09 [4.45] | 0.30** | ||||
| Sex: female | 19 (63.33) | 29 (65.91) | 0.82 | 10 (55.56) | 0.59 | 24 (54.55) | 0.45 | |||||
| Education (years)* | 10.23 [2.60] | 11.91 [2.99] | 0.06 | 11.61 [2.12] | 0.56 | 12.32 [2.76] | <0.01 | |||||
| Disease evolution (months)* | 0.00 | 33.25 [7.91] | <0.01 | 29.61 [7.88] | <0.01 | 31.91 [9.72] | <0.01 | |||||
| Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR)* | 0.167 [0.24] | 2.25 [0.61] | <0.01 | 1.94 [0.54] | <0.01 | 1.60 [0.66] | <0.01** | |||||
| Mini-mental State Examination* | 28.53 [1.20] | 22.43 [3.34] | <0.01 | 25.78 [1.40] | <0.01** | 20.98 [2.48] | <0.01**# | |||||
| Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire* | 3.26 [0.73] | 20.86 [2.76] | <0.01 | 19.72 [1.36] | <0.01 | 19.00 [3.62] | <0.01** | |||||
| Neuropsychiatric Inventory* | 4.90 [2.16] | 25.68 [6.52] | <0.01 | 32.61 [8.33] | <0.01** | 17.91 [3.78] | <0.01**# | |||||
| Beck Depression Inventory* | 4.27 [1.34] | 16.18 [4.09] | <0.01 | 21.22 [3.02] | <0.01** | 12.91 [3.83] | <0.01**# | |||||
| Primary caregivers |
Age (years)* | NA | 48.75 [15.44] | NA | 51.22 [13.67] | NA | 50.34 [13.12] | NA | ||||
| Sex: female | NA | 38 (86.36) | NA | 17 (94.44) | NA | 36 (81.82) | NA | |||||
| Education (years)* | NA | 10.11 [2.46] | NA | 9.56 [3.13] | NA | 9.84 [2.78] | NA | |||||
| Relationship to patient | Spouse or partner | NA | 9 (20.45) | NA | 5 (27.78) | NA | 15 (34.09) | NA | ||||
| Son or daughter | NA | 13 (29.55) | NA | 5 (27.78) | NA | 13 (29.55) | NA | |||||
| Brother or sister | NA | 9.09 | NA | 16.67 | NA | 50.00 | NA | |||||
| Other family | NA | 5 (11.36) | NA | 1 (5.56) | NA | 5 (11.36) | NA | |||||
| Hired caregiver | NA | 12 (27.27) | NA | 3 (16.67) | NA | 9 (20.45) | NA | |||||
| Zarit Burden Inventory* | NA | 28.39 [9.10] | NA | 27.72 [6.96] | NA | 31.27 [8.94] | NA | |||||
*
Values expressed as mean [standard deviation];
**
Statistically different with Alzheimer’s dementia;
#
Statistically different with frontotemporal dementia; NA: Not -applicable.