Table 1.

Age and gender, MMSE scores and various blood measurements between groups

	C	MCI	AD	*p HC versus MCI	* HC versus AD	p
Sample number	40	20	20
Sex (F/M)	19/21	11/9	8/12	ns	ns
Age	75.3	77.8	78.0	ns	ns
MMSE	28.6	26.6	21.1	0.018	< 0.0001
APOE ɛ4 allele positive (%) Homozygous E4/E4 %	7/40 (17.5%) 0%	11/20 (55%) 0%	10/20 (50%) 20%
Vitamin B12 (pmol/L)	303.8±14.5	402.5±42.6	395.6±27.6	0.02	0.03
Folate (nmol/L)	30.1±1.5	34.5±2.2	33.9±2.9	ns	ns
Homocysteine (μmol/L)	14.1±0.6	14.1±0.9	15.6±1.2	ns	ns
Vitamin D3 (nmol/L)	69.1±3.6	89.2±5.8	70.7±4.3	0.006	ns
Cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.79±0.19	4.55±0.32	4.98±0.29	ns	ns
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	1.43±0.10	1.47±0.15	1.19±0.10	ns	ns
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.50±0.05	1.71±0.15	1.89±0.15	ns	0.02
LDL-cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.65±0.18	2.06±0.22	2.32±0.25	ns	ns
Non HDL-cholesterol (mmol/L)	3.30±0.20	3.04±0.36	2.89±0.22	ns	ns
CRP (mg/L)	2.33±0.39	1.76±0.39	1.41±0.32	ns	ns

^*Bonferroni post-hoc test.