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. 2020 Feb 6;5:6. doi: 10.1038/s41525-019-0113-8

Table 3.

Descriptive characteristics of the ROS/MAP biological replication cohort (N = 160).

Characteristic N Percentage
Sex (female) 111 69.4
Diagnosis rendered at death
Normal cognition 50 31.3
Mild cognitive impairment 50 31.2
Alzheimer dementia 60 37.5
Study
ROS 18 11.3
MAP 142 88.7
Mean [SD] Median Range
Age at enrollment 82.0 [6.4] 81.9 [66–97]
Age at death 90.3 [6.2] 90.3 [71–104]
Education 14.9 [3.2] 15.0 [4–25]
Depression score (average over all follow-up years)a 1.4 [1.4] 1.0 [0–8]
Number of follow-up years 6.3 [4.4] 6.0 [0–19]
Postmortem interval (PMI) 9.2 [5.7] 7.3 [2.3–38.3]
RNA integrity number (RIN) 5.4 [1.5] 5.4 [2.1–8.1]

aCES-D has a possible score range of 0 to 10; higher scores indicate greater depressive symptoms