Table 2.
Association between age, gender and white matter macrostructural measures.
N | Mean (SD) | Age | Gender(female) | ||||||
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B | SE | η2 | B | SE | η2 | ||||
CEREBRUM | |||||||||
Vol. | NAWM | 200 | 462.318 (54.911) | −0.069**¶ | 0.010 | 0.109 | −0.326** | 0.121 | 0.016 |
WMHa | 196 | 2.399 (1.181; 4.456) | 0.051**¶ | 0.014 | 0.059 | 0.388* | 0.175 | 0.023 | |
FRONTAL | |||||||||
Vol. | NAWM | 199 | 193.720 (24.024) | −0.074**¶ | 0.010 | 0.127 | −0.162 | 0.128 | 0.004 |
WMHa | 196 | 1.397 (0.670; 2.410) | 0.045**¶ | 0.014 | 0.046 | 0.468** | 0.177 | 0.033 | |
PARIETAL | |||||||||
Vol. | NAWM | 200 | 105.413 (13.149) | −0.049**¶ | 0.010 | 0.056 | −0.439**¶ | 0.129 | 0.029 |
WMHa | 190 | 0.315 (0.123; 0.856) | 0.053**¶ | 0.015 | 0.064 | 0.336 | 0.177 | 0.017 | |
TEMPORAL | |||||||||
Vol. | NAWM | 200 | 78.784 (9.632) | −0.074**¶ | 0.010 | 0.126 | −0.428**¶ | 0.126 | 0.028 |
WMHa | 188 | 0.120 (0.043; 0.350) | 0.024 | 0.015 | 0.012 | 0.302 | 0.180 | 0.014 | |
OCCIPITAL | |||||||||
Vol. | NAWM | 200 | 60.378 (8.383) | −0.055**¶ | 0.011 | 0.070 | −0.426** | 0.138 | 0.028 |
WMHa | 194 | 0.328 (0.158; 0.663) | 0.022 | 0.015 | 0.011 | −0.197 | 0.180 | 0.006 |
NAWM, normal appearing white matter; SD, standard deviation; SE, standard error; WMH, white matter hyperintensity; Vol., volume. Volumes for WMH and NAWM are indicated in ml.
p < 0.05;
p < 0.01;
corrected for multiple comparisons.
All models were adjusted for education, diastolic blood pressure, and intracranial volume.
natural log transformed.