Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of the sample

Variables	Groups								p-value
	NC			AD			bvFTD
	Mean	SD		Mean	SD		Mean	SD
CDR	-	-		1.03	0.18		1.23	0.49	0.088
GDS	1.97	0.97		3.45	1.93		2.90	1.96	0.004*
MMSE	25.50	1.31		19.13	2.36		21.90	5.29	<0.001*

^*Kruskal-Wallis test. Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE); Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). NC: normal control; AD: Alzheimer's disease, bvFTD: behavior variant frontotemporal dementia.