TABLE 1.

Demographic and clinical features of patients with AD and HCs.

	AD N = 24	HC N = 15	P
Age, y	67.8 ± 8.2	64.8 ± 6.0	0.228
Sex, F/M	17/7	10/5	0.784
Education, y	11.0 ± 3.6	12.6 ± 2.4	0.125
APOE ε4 carrier/non-carrier	11/13	2/13	0.036
MMSE	16.3 ± 6.1	27.7 ± 1.7	0.000

Age, education and MMSE are provided as mean ± SD. AD, Alzheimer’s disease; HC, healthy control; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination.