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. 2018 Sep 5;8:13236. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31653-6

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effects of age. (A) In NL, age was significantly correlated with subject scores determined by GLM method (r = 0.350, p < 0.001). In AD, no correlation was observed (r = 0.113, p = 0.279). Similar level of correlations were also observed only in NL when SSM/PCA1 (r = 0.370, p < 0.001) and SSM/PCA2 (r = 0.367, p < 0.001) were used. (B) Likewise, similar level of correlations between subject scores and age were observed only in stable MCI (GLM: r = 0.387, p < 0.001; SSM/PCA1: r = 0.329, p < 0.001; SSM/PCA2: r = 0.401, p < 0.001) but not in prodromal AD (r < 0.28). (C) In stable MCI, patients who were designated as “AD” (n = 45 out of 141) by SVM-ISDA were significantly older than patients who were designated as “non-AD” (*t(184) = 2.762, p = 0.006). Similar trend was observed when SVM-SMO was used (t(184) = 1.767, p = 0.079). This age difference associated with “AD”-designation was not observed in prodromal AD patients in both SVM methods (p > 0.48).