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. 2019 Mar 26;46(6):1276–1286. doi: 10.1007/s00259-019-04297-5

Table 1.

Demographic, clinical and biomarker data using diagnoses obtained prior to [18F]flutemetamol PET

MCI AD Non-AD disorder Dementia NOS SCD
Number of patients 131 41 10 20 5
Age (years), mean (SD) 64.5 (8.6) 65.2 (8.7) 67.6 (5.2) 62.3 (9.5) 68.4 (8.3)
Sex, female/male (n/n) 76/55 27/14 5/5 10/10 3/2
MMSEa 25.6 (3.7) 24.5 (3.7) 23.4 (3.8) 22 (5.5) 29 (1.2)
APOE ε4
 Number of patients with data available 75 27 4 9 5
 Number (%) positive 42 (56) 15 (56) 2 (50) 2 (22) 2 (40)
CSF biomarkers
 Number of patients with data available 86 38 9 15 4
 Aβ1-42 (ng/L), mean (SD) 595 (164) 612 (325) 627 (198) 678 (272) 685 (98.4)
 p-tau (ng/L), mean (SD)b 52 (29) 59 (23) 49 (23) 39.9 (24.5) 73 (19.8)
 t-tau (ng/L), mean (SD)c 369 (228) 429 (201) 506 (152) 299 (289) 549 (241)
CT/MRI scales
 Number of patients with data available 128 40 10 19 5
 MTA (n)d 0/1k 76 20 2 10 5
2 39 14 5 6 0
3 11 5 2 2 0
4 2 1 1 1 0
 GCA (n)e 0 32 8 1 4 0
1 75 25 5 9 3
2 20 7 3 5 2
3 1 0 1 1 0
 Fazekas scale (n)f 0 28 7 1 3 0
1 68 21 6 10 4
2 21 8 2 1 1
3 11 4 1 5 0
[18F]FDG metabolic patternsg
 Number of patients with data available 44 16 4 11 3
 Typical of AD (n) 4 2 0 0 0
 Not typical of AD (n) 16 9 0 5 0
 Non-AD (n) 13 3 2 5 0
 Nonspecific (n) 11 2 2 1 3
[18F]Flutemetamol
 Number (%) positive on visual assessmenth 69 (53) 28 (68) 2 (20) 4 (20) 3 (60)
 Global SUVR, mean (SD)I 0.61 (0.19) 0.71 (0.18) 0.47 (0.05) 0.52 (0.18) 0.64 (0.18)
 Number (%) positive by SUVRj 67 (51) 28 (68) 2 (20) 4 (20) 3 (60)

AD Alzheimer’s disease, GCA global cortical atrophy, MCI mild cognitive impairment, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, MTA medial temporal atrophy, NOS not otherwise specified, SCD subjective cognitive decline, SUVR standardized uptake value ratio

aMMSE: dementia NOS < AD (p < 0.01); MCI, AD, non-AD, dementia NOS < SCI (p < 0.01)

b p-tau AD > MCI and dementia NOS (p < 0.05); SCI > dementia NOS (p < 0.05)

ct-tau: AD > dementia NOS (p < 0.01)

dMTA (0/1 none/minimal, 2 mild, 3 moderate, 4 severe): MCI vs. non-AD (p < 0.01); AD vs. non-AD (p < 0.01); non-AD vs. dementia NOS (p < 0.05)

eGCA: 0 none, 1 mild, 2 moderate, 3 severe

fFazekas scale (white matter hyperintensities): 0 none, 1 mild, 2 moderate, 3 severe

g[18F]FDG metabolic patterns: AD vs. SCI (p < 0.05), dementia NOS vs. SCI (p < 0.01)

hVisual assessment: MCI > dementia NOS (p < 0.01), AD > non-AD (p < 0.01), AD > dementia NOS (p < 0.001)

ISUVR: MCI > dementia NOS (p < 0.05), AD > MCI (p < 0.01), non-AD (p < 0.01), dementia NOS (p < 0.001)

jSUVR positivity (SUVR defined using a global cortical cut-off value of >0.60): MCI > dementia NOS (p < 0.01), AD > non-AD (p < 0.01) AD > dementia NOS (p < 0.001)

kMTA 0 and 1 are considered normal; these categories were therefore combined