Table 1.

Demographics for the healthy and the Alzheimer-type dementia individuals used in this study.

	Alzheimer’s disease (N = 20)	Healthy individuals (N = 11)	p-Values
Gender	15 F; 5 M	7 F; 4 M	0.7
Age	77.3 ± 12.1	70.0 ± 13.0	0.13
Iron (μM)	12.4 ± 5.02	19.0 ± 4.39	0.001
Transferrin (g⋅L-1)	2.2 ± 0.47	2.4 ± 0.30	0.13
% transferrin saturation	24.2 ± 10.79	31.9 ± 7.52	0.04
Serum ferritin (ng⋅mL-1)	96 (30.5–113)	66 (29–84)	0.4

Gender was compared using Fisher’s exact test. Age and iron measurements were compared using the unpaired t-test. Serum ferritin was compared using the Mann–Whitney test following the non-normal distribution of this measurement. All analyses were done using GraphPad 7. Data are presented as either mean ± STD or median (lower quartile–upper quartile; interquartile range). Bold numbers show significant p-values.