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. 2020 May 6;30(4):811–830. doi: 10.1111/bpa.12843

Table 3.

Demographic and pathological features of all cases with or without GFAs

  Frontal cortex (N = 105) Caudate nucleus (N = 105) Putamen (N = 105) Amygdala (N = 96)
Cases with GFAs Cases without GFAs Cases with GFAs Cases without GFAs Cases with GFAs Cases without GFAs Cases with GFAs Cases without GFAs
N (%) 36 (34.3) 69 (65.7) 35 (33.3) 70 (66.7) 39 (37.1) 66 (62.9) 43 (44.8) 53 (55.2)
Age at death [y, mean ± SD] 74.8 ± 11.5 69.2 ± 12.2 75.7 ± 10.5* 68.8 ± 12.4 77.2 ± 9.6* 67.5 ± 12.2 73.7 ± 10.3 69.2 ± 13.5
Braak stage [median (25th percentile, 75th percentile)] 2 (2, 4) 2 (1, 5) 3 (2, 4) 2 (1, 5) 3 (2, 4) 2 (1, 4.75) 2 (2, 4) 3 (1, 5)
Thal phase [median (25th percentile, 75th percentile)] 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 3) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 3) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 3) 1 (0, 3) 1 (0, 4)
AGD stage [median (25th percentile, 75th percentile)] 0 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 2)* 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 2)* 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 2)* 0 (0, 0)
PSP (N, %) 9 (90.0)* 1 (10.0) 10 (100.0)* 0 (0.0) 10 (100.0)* 0 (0.0) 9 (100.0)* 0 (0.0)
CBD (N, %) 1 (14.3) 6 (85.7) 1 (14.3) 6 (85.7) 1 (14.3) 6 (85.7) 1 (16.7) 5 (83.3)
LBD (N, %) 7 (28.0) 18 (72.0) 9 (36.0) 16 (64.0) 9 (36.0) 16 (64.0) 7 (30.4) 16 (69.6)
TDP‐43 pathology (N, %) 11 (32.4) 23 (67.6) 14 (41.2) 20 (58.8) 14 (41.2) 20 (58.8) 12 (35.3) 22 (64.7)
PART only (N, %) , § 2 (40.0) 3 (60.0) 0 (0.0) 5 (100.0) 1 (20.0) 4 (80.0) 3 (75.0) 1 (25.0)

Abbreviations: AGD = argyrophilic grain disease; CBD = corticobasal degeneration; GFA = granular/fuzzy astrocyte; LBD = Lewy body disease; PSP = progressive supranuclear palsy; TDP‐43 pathology = all cases having FTLD‐TDP, ALS‐TDP and other TDP‐43‐positive lesions in the limbic system and neocortex are included.

*

P < 0.01.

Mann–Whitney U test.

Frequency of each lesion was compared using Fisher’s exact test.

§

PART cases without any other tauopathies and non‐tauopathies. The amygdala was not available in one of these PART cases.