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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2017 Oct 10;48(11):2964–2972. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018336

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics Stratified By Cerebral Microbleed Location

Characteristic Comparison of Analyzed Sample to the Excluded Visit 5 Participants Analyzed Sample Stratified by Cerebral Microbleed Location

Excluded Sample (N=4,843) Analyzed Sample (N=1,677) No CMB (N=1,279) Deep or Mixed CMB (N=136) Strictly Lobar CMB (N=262)

Cognitive Status(N(%))

 Normal 3671 (77) 1072 (64) 835 (65) 82 (60) 155 (59)
 Mild Cognitive Impairment 766 (16) 605 (36) 444 (35) 54 (40) 107 (41)
 Dementia 342 ( 7) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0)

Covariates

Female (N(%)) 2829 (58) 1006 (60) 785 (61) 81 (60) 140 (53)

Age in years (Mean(SD)) 76 ( 5) 76 ( 5) 76 ( 5) 77 ( 5) 77 ( 5)

Education (N(%))
 Less than High School 769 (16) 218 (13) 156 (12) 20 (15) 42 (16)
 High School, GED, or Vocational School 2009 (42) 699 (42) 531 (42) 61 (45) 107 (41)
 Some College 2054 (43) 760 (45) 592 (46) 55 (40) 113 (43)

Race-site (N(%))
 Forsyth County blacks 103 ( 2) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0)
 Forsyth County whites 946 (20) 390 (23) 288 (23) 42 (31) 60 (23)
 Jackson blacks 974 (20) 441 (26) 322 (25) 38 (28) 81 (31)
 Jackson whites 2 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0)
 Minneapolis blacks 10 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0)
 Minneapolis whites 1489 (31) 404 (24) 311 (24) 27 (20) 66 (25)
 Washington County blacks 16 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0)
 Washington County whites 1303 (27) 442 (26) 358 (28) 29 (21) 55 (21)

Diabetes (N(%)) 1349 (30) 470 (28) 353 (28) 33 (24) 84 (32)

Hypertension (N(%))
 Normal 502 (11) 186 (11) 150 (12) 12 ( 9) 24 ( 9)
 Prehypertensive 684 (14) 241 (14) 184 (14) 15 (11) 42 (16)
 Hypertensive 3564 (75) 1250 (75) 945 (74) 109 (80) 196 (75)

Current or Former Smoker (N(%)) 2595 (61) 945 (56) 712 (56) 82 (60) 151 (58)

Estimated Total Intracranial Volume in cm3 (Mean(SD)) - 1382 (156) 1379 (157) 1376 (147) 1399 (157)

Predictors of Interest

White Matter Hyperintensity Volume in cm3 (Mean(SD)) - 17 (17) 15 (15) 27 (23) 20 (19)

Total AD Signature Region Volume in cm3 (Mean(SD)) - 59 ( 7) 60 ( 7) 58 ( 7) 59 ( 7)

Total Gray Volume in cm3 (Mean(SD)) - 443 (45) 444 (45) 434 (45) 442 (45)

Frontal Volume in cm3 (Mean(SD))* 151 (16) 151 (16) 148 (16) 151 (16)
 Females - 144 (13) 145 (13) 141 (12) 142 (12)
 Males - 160 (15) 161 (15) 158 (15) 161 (15)

Number of Lacunar Infarcts (N(%))
 0 - 1390 (83) 1085 (85) 101 (74) 204 (78)
 1 - 208 (12) 143 (11) 23 (17) 42 (16)
 2 - 57 ( 3) 37 ( 3) 10 ( 7) 10 ( 4)
 ≥3 - 20 ( 1) 12 ( 1) 2 ( 1) 6 ( 2)

Number of Non-Lacunar Infarcts (N(%))
 0 - 1486 (89) 1156 (91) 113 (83) 217 (83)
 1 - 147 ( 9) 98 ( 8) 16 (12) 33 (13)
 ≥2 - 42 ( 3) 23 ( 2) 7 ( 5) 12 ( 5)

Total Number of Infarcts (N(%))
 0 - 1261 (75) 996 (78) 88 (65) 177 (68)
 1 - 272 (16) 197 (15) 27 (20) 48 (18)
 2 - 89 ( 5) 56 ( 4) 12 ( 9) 21 ( 8)
 ≥3 - 53 ( 3) 28 ( 2) 9 ( 7) 16 ( 6)

Copies of the APOE ε4 Allele (N(%))
 0 3226 (71) 1160 (72) 897 (73) 94 (71) 169 (67)
 1 1245 (27) 416 (26) 314 (26) 33 (25) 69 (27)
 2 103 ( 2) 38 ( 2) 18 ( 1) 6 ( 5) 14 ( 6)

NOTE: SD=Standard deviation. The statistics are the observed frequencies and means;

*

The frontal volume exhibited significant interactions with sex; thus sex-specific summary statistics are presented along with the overall (combined sex) values.