Table 1.
Frequencies of white matter hyperintensities severity distributed by age, sex and diagnosis.
| WMH severity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absent/mild (n = 69) | Moderate (n = 53) | Severe (n = 55) | p-Value | |
| Age (%) | 0.065 | |||
| 75–79 | 41.9% | 36.5% | 21.6% | |
| 80–84 | 40.3% | 19.4% | 40.3% | |
| ≥ 85 | 30.5% | 36.1% | 33.3% | |
| Gender | n.s. | |||
| Female (%) | 37.0% | 28.7% | 34.2% | |
| Cognitive category | 0.092 | |||
| Cognitively healthy | 42.8% | 32.1% | 25.0% | |
| CIND | 38.9% | 27.7% | 33.3% | |
| Dementia | 24.1% | 24.1% | 51.7% | |
| Clinical comorbidities | ||||
| History of MI (n = 6) | 33.3% | 33.3% | 33.3% | n.s. |
| Hypertension (n = 132) | 36.4% | 30.3% | 33.3% | n.s. |
| Diabetes (n = 26) | 30.8% | 30.8% | 38.5% | n.s. |
| Dyslipidemia (n = 36) | 36.1% | 30.6% | 33.3% | n.s. |
WMH: white matter hyperintensities; CIND: cognitive impairment no dementia; MI: myocardial infarction; n.s.: not significant.