Table 3.
Characteristics of participants in Dataset 3
| Characteristic | Total Sample (n = 304) |
Controls (n = 153) |
AD (n =151) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, median (25th–75th percentile) | 69 (64–72) | 68 (64–72) | 69 (65–73) |
| Education year, median (25th–75th percentile) | 10 (8–11) | 10 (9–11) | 9 (7–10)* |
| Women, No. (%) | 155 (50.9) | 78 (50.9) | 77 (50.9) |
| ApoE ε4 positive (%) | 90 (29.6) | 28 (18.3) | 62 (41.1)* |
| MMSE score (SD) | 25.0 (4.5) | 29.0 (0.6) | 20.9 (2.8)* |
| Aβ42, mean (SD), pg/ml | 559.2 (213.4) | 742.6 (128.2) | 373.4 (79.2) |
| T-tau, mean (SD), pg/ml | 478.7 (212.9) | 322.2 (98.6) | 637.3 (177.2) |
| P-tau, mean (SD), pg/ml | 73.4 (36.8) | 55.7 (24.2) | 91.3 (38.7) |
The values of age, education year, and MMSE are shown as mean (SD)
Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; VaD, vascular dementia; PDD, Parkinson disease dementia; bvFTD, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; DLB, dementia with Lewy body; ApoE ε4, apolipoprotein ε4; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; SD, standard deviation
*P < 0.05 compared to controls