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. 2021 May 4;13:94. doi: 10.1186/s13195-021-00828-1

Table 3.

Characteristics of study cohort 2 and baseline statistics of CSF measurements

Cohort 2
PET (n = 21) PET+ (n = 17) p-value PET - PET+#
Age 66.86 ± 10.95 68.29 ± 11.20 0.6928*
Gender 0.7442$
Women 9 (42.9%) 6 (35.3%)
Men 12 (57.1%) 11 (64.7%)
CSF GPNMB [pg/ml] 8074 ± 3358 8620 ± 3577 0.6845#
APOE genotype
ε2/ε2
ε2/ε3 2
ε2/ε4 1 1
ε3/ε3 13 7
ε3/ε4 4 8
ε4/ε4 1 1
≥ 1 APOE ε4 allele, n (%) 6 (28.6%) 10 (58.8%) 0.0990$
CSF p-Tau [pg/ml] 52.52 ± 26.59 69.76 ± 27.39 0.0367#
CSF t-Tau [pg/ml] 362.3 ± 258.4 578.0 ± 339.1 0.0225#
CSF Aβ38 [pg/ml] 2848 ± 946.1 2509 ± 734.8 0.2810#
CSF Aβ40 [pg/ml] 9294 ± 2851 8343 ± 2575 0.2929*
vCSF Aβ42 [pg/ml] 796.5 ± 336.9 441.2 ± 157.3 0.0002#
CSF Aβ ratio 42/40 0.08529 ± 0.01939 0.05433 ± 0.01949 <  0.0001#

*Unpaired t-test, #Mann-Whitney, or $Fisher’s exact test for differences between the diagnostic groups