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. 2018 Mar 7;8:4161. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22277-x

Table 2.

Mixed effects models of worsening in the neuropsychological test performances over time by AD-specific atrophy similarity in patients with aMCI and AD.

AD-specific atrophy similarity by time Patients with aMCI Patients with AD
Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value
Neuropsychological tests
 Attention −0.018 0.030 0.563 −0.121 0.041 0.003
 Language −0.112 0.036 0.030 −0.344 0.078 <0.001
 Visuospatial −0.032 0.120 0.791 −0.180 0.186 0.338
 Memory −0.370 0.276 0.186 −0.438 0.213 0.044
 Frontal/executive −0.041 0.168 0.809 −0.542 0.169 0.002
 SNSB-D total −0.107 0.350 0.048 −1.604 0.464 0.001
MMSE −0.064 0.035 0.024 −0.263 0.077 0.001
CDR 0.003 0.003 0.390 0.027 0.010 0.013
CDR-SB 0.042 0.020 0.003 0.145 0.044 0.002

Linear mixed effects model were performed using AD-specific atrophy similarity, time, and the interaction term between AD-specific atrophy similarity and time (AD-specific atrophy similarity by time) as fixed effects and patient as random effect. AD-specific atrophy similarity was computed using w-score based on age and education.

Abbreviations: aMCI = amnestic mild cognitive impairment; AD = Alzheimer’s disease; SE = standard error; SNSB-D = Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery-Dementia version; MMSE = mini-mental state examination; CDR = Clinical Dementia Rating; CDR-SB = Clinical Dementia Rating sum of boxes.