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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2016 Nov 19;133(3):395–407. doi: 10.1007/s00401-016-1647-9

Table 2.

Linear regression models showing the associations of demographic, pathological and/or overall brain neurochemical variables, with global cognitive function in MAP participants by Braak stage

Model and terms Braak 0–II Braak III–IV Braak V–VI
Adj. R2 or Ba P value Adj. R2 or B P value Adj. R2 or B P value
Reference model 0.3413 0.2259 0.2307
 Sex 0.2204 0.0063* −0.0541 0.3023 0.2829 0.0160*
 Age at death −0.0088 0.4265 −0.0242 0.0062* −0.0416 0.0827
 Education 0.0636 0.0241* 0.0240 0.1685 0.0109 0.7813
 PMI −0.0056 0.7385 0.0036 0.7676 0.0237 0.2484
 Macroinfarcts −0.2327 0.1924 −0.5147 <.0001* 0.0103 0.9628
 Lewy bodies −0.4268 0.0682 −0.1392 0.2609 0.0418 0.8677
 Hippocampal sclerosis −1.1800 <.0001* −0.5474 0.0017* −0.8913 0.0405*
 β-amyloid −0.0936 0.2467 −0.0244 0.5628 −0.0561 0.6838
 Phosphotau −0.0432 0.6785 −0.0460 0.0019* −0.0513 <.0001*
 Synapse densityb 0.0111 0.9108 −0.0559 0.2768 −0.0848 0.5023
Test model 0.4852 0.2216 0.3036
 Sex 0.2117 0.0037* −0.0532 0.3137 0.3542 0.0022*
 Age at death −0.0132 0.1850 −0.0234 0.0088* −0.0326 0.1565
 Education 0.0693 0.0087* 0.0226 0.1990 0.0422 0.2742
 PMI −0.0101 0.4999 0.0033 0.7891 0.0327 0.0987
 Macroinfarcts −0.1726 0.2749 −0.5094 <.0001* 0.0113 0.9568
 Lewy bodies −0.6308 0.0039* −0.1239 0.3248 0.1231 0.6088
 Hippocampal sclerosis −0.7454 0.0069* −0.5320 0.0028* −0.8319 0.0478*
 β-amyloid −0.0374 0.6081 −0.0241 0.5690 −0.0494 0.7069
 Phosphotau −0.0575 0.5454 −0.0442 0.0033* −0.0518 <.0001*
 Synapse densityb −0.1581 0.1615 −0.0682 0.2435 −0.2149 0.0964
 CPX1 0.5466 0.0001* 0.0748 0.4171 −0.1476 0.3228
 CPX2 0.2355 0.1241 −0.0284 0.7323 0.5189 0.0022*
a

Unstandardized coefficient

b

Synapse density was estimated as the overall brain levels of the three SNARE proteins (syntaxin-1, SNAP-25 and VAMP) averaged

*

Statistically significant