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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Jun 10;138(3):401–413. doi: 10.1007/s00401-019-02031-x

Table 2:

Clinical and exposure measures between clusters

Cluster 1 2 3 4 p-value
Sample Size (n) 164 11 28 19
Age at Death (S.E.M) 84.7 (1.0) 72.5 (3.3) 82.4 (2.2) 84.7 (2.5) <0.001*a,e
Gender m/f (%male) 89/73 (54.9%) 10/1 (83.3%) 19/9 (67.9%) 13/6 (68.4%) 0.062
Pathology Group (n) <0.001
No CTE/No AD 65 (39.6%) 4 (36.4%) 6 (21.4%) 2 (10.5%)
AD 66 (40.2%) 0 (0%) 12 (42.9%) 12 (63.2%) <0.05*a,e
CTE 24 (14.6%) 5 (45.5%) 2 (7.1%) 2 (10.5%) <0.05*a,d
CTE & AD 9 (5.5%) 2 (18.2%) 8 (28.6%) 3 (15.8%) <0.05*b
RHI y/n (%) 42/79 (34.7%) 10/0 (100%) 12/7 (63.2%) 8/4 (66.7%) <0.001*a
Exposure years 5.4 (0.8) 16.7 (2.0) 7.6 (1.8) 7.9 (0.7)
LBD y/n (%) 52/112 (31.7%) 3/8 (27.3%) 12/16 (42.9%) 4/15 (21.1%) 0.443
CTE y/n (%) 33/131 (20.1%) 7/4 (63.6%) 10/18 (35.7%) 5/13 (26.3%) <0.001*a
Stage I 1 (3%) 0 (0%) 1 (10%) 0 (0%)
Stage II 3 (9.1%) 2 (28.6%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Stage III 16 (48.5%) 2 (28.6%) 2 (20%) 1 (20%)
Stage IV 13 (39.4%) 3 (42.9%) 7 (70%) 4 (80%)
Dementia 99/54 (64.7%) 8/3 (72.7%) 21/6 (77.8%) 16/3 (84.2%) 0.224

Participants with complete CAA data in all brain regions were used in hierarchical clustering analysis (n=222). Values are presented as mean (S.E.M.) years for age at death and contact sports exposure; mean yeas of exposure are for subjects with sports exposure >0; AD: Alzheimer disease; CTE: chronic traumatic encephalopathŷ LBD: Lewy body disease; RHI, repetitive head impacts;

*

χ2 test for proportions,

a

p<0.05 for comparison between clusters 1 and 2,

b

p<0.05 for comparison between clusters 1 and 3,

c

p<0.05 for comparison between 1 and 4,

d

p<0.05 for comparison between clusters 2 and 3,

e

p<0.05 for comparison between clusters 2 and 4.