TABLE 1.

Clinical and demographic characteristics of all subjects.

	HCs	AD patients	p value
N	19	26	−
Age (Y)	65.59 ± 8.05	70.68 ± 12.21	0.10
Gender (M/F)	9/8	17/12	0.29
Education (Y)	10.73 ± 4.99	11.23 ± 3.48	0.421
MMSE*	29.33 ± 0.18	20.27 ± 4.69	<0.001

*MMSE scores for AD patients vs. HCs were significantly different by a two-sample t-test, p < 0.05. Data are mean ± SD or numbers of subjects.