Table 4.
Olfactory functions of AD-Aa and AD-NAb groups
AD-A group (60 cases) | AD-NA group (64 cases) | P value | |
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THRc [points, median (quartile)] | 4.0(2.0 ~ 6.0) | 5.0(3.0 ~ 6.0) | 0.274 |
DISd [points, median (quartile)] | 8.0(4.5 ~ 10.0) | 8.0(6.0 ~ 11.0) | 0.081 |
IDe [points, median (quartile)] | 8.0(5.0 ~ 10.5) | 9.0(7.0 ~ 12.3) | 0.068 |
TDIf[scores, median (quartile)] | 21.0(14.0 ~ 25.0) | 22.0(17.8 ~ 29.0) | 0.074 |
*P < 0.002 after Bonferroni correction, aAD-A Alzheimer disease with apathy, bAD-NA Alzheimer disease with no apathy, cOlfactory Threshold, dOlfactory Discrimination, eOlfactory Identification, fSum of olfactory threshold, discrimination and identification