Table 2.

Description of the Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and healthy control (HC) cohorts

	AD	MCI	HC
Number of subjects (n)	26	26	26
Age range (years)	75–87	74–86	75–85
Mean age (years)	79.6	79.6	79.3
Gender (n)
Male	13	13	13
Female	13	13	13
MMSE score (range)	6–25	21–30	27–30
MMSE score (mean ± SD)	17.93 ± 5.5	27.5 ± 2.4	29.6 ± 0.8
CDR (range)	4.5–13	0.5–4.5	0–0.5
CDR (mean ± SD)	8 ± 3.1	1.97 ± 1.3	0.07 ± 2.1

CDR Clinical Dementia Rating, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, SD standard deviation