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. 2021 Mar 20;144(7):2166–2175. doi: 10.1093/brain/awab092

Table 4.

Variances explainedby each of the pathological indices and combinations thereof

Predictor Global cognition decline
Total variance Reduction % Total variance explained
Reference model 0.0094
Separate models
 Global Alzheimer’s disease pathology 0.0069 0.0025 27%
 Amyloid-β 0.0082 0.0012 13%
 PHFtau tangles 0.0061 0.0033 35%
 Neocortical Lewy bodies 0.0090 0.0004 4%
 LATE-NC (4 stages) 0.0088 0.0006 7%
 Hippocampal sclerosis 0.0091 0.0003 3%
 Gross infarcts, chronic 0.0093 0.0001 1%
 Microscopic infarcts, chronic 0.0094 0.0000 0%
 Atherosclerosis 0.0092 0.0002 3%
 Arteriolosclerosis 0.0093 0.0001 2%
 Cerebral amyloid angiopathy 0.0090 0.0004 5%
Multivariate models
 Six pathologiesa 0.0057 0.0037 40%
 All 11 pathologies 0.0054 0.0040 43%
a

Includes globalAlzheimer’s disease pathology, amyloid-β, PHFtau tangles, neocortical Lewy bodies, gross infarcts, and microscopic infarcts.