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. 2019 Oct 15;11:84. doi: 10.1186/s13195-019-0543-7

Table 2.

Demographic data and AT(N) cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profiles of all included patients, divided according to their clinical syndrome

Normal^ (n = 132) AD-continuum^
(n = 389)
Non-AD^
(n = 107)
n Age* M:F A−T−(N−) A+T−(N−) AD pathologic change A+T+(N−) AD A+T+(N+) AD A+T−(N+)
AD and non-AD pathologic change
A−T+(N−) A−T−(N+) A−T+(N+)
AD 229 72 ± 8 96:133 1 (0.4) 56 (24.5) 34 (14.9) 118 (51.6) 7 (3.1) 5 (2.1) 1 (0.4) 7 (3.0)
FTD 107 73 ± 7 61:46 39 (36.5) 11 (10.4) 7 (6.5) 9 (8.4) 1 (0.9) 15 (14.0) 4 (3.7) 21 (19.6)
LBD 37 76 ± 5 20:17 13 (35.1) 9 (24.3) 4 (10.8) 3 (8.1) 2 (5.4) 2 (5.4) 1 (2.7) 3 (8.1)
PSP/CBS 12 69 ± 7 6:6 9 (75.0) 1 (8.3) 2 (16.7)
PD 5 62 ± 18 2:3 4 (80.0) 1 (20%)
VaD/mixed 67 76 ± 6 37:30 17 (25.4) 16 (23.9) 6 (8.9) 8 (11.9) 10 (14.9) 10 (14.9)
Others° 30 15 (50.0) 7 (23.3) 1 (3.3) 2 (6.7) 1 (3.3) 1 (3.3) 3 (10.0)
MCI 132 73 ± 7 62:70 27 (20.4) 35 (26.5) 18 (13.6) 25 (18.9) 4 (3.0) 11 (8.3) 12 (9.2)
CU 9 69 ± 6 8:1 7 (77.8) 2 (22.2)
Total 628 132 (21.0) 138 (22.0) 70 (11.1) 167 (26.6) 14 (2.2) 44 (7.0) 7 (1.1) 56 (9.0)

*Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation. ^Data are expressed as number/total (percentage). °Among the 30 patients classified as “others” dementia, 4 had a diagnosis of sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy, 12 dysthymic dementia, 3 prion diseases, 1 Huntington disease, 1 Nasu-Hakola disease, 7 normal pressure hydrocephalus and 2 metabolic dementia

Abbreviations: AD Alzheimer’s disease, M males, F females, FTD frontotemporal dementia, LBD Lewy body dementia, PSP progressive supranuclear palsy, CBS corticobasal syndrome, PD idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, VaD vascular dementia, MCI mild cognitive impairment, CU cognitively unimpaired