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. 2022 Jan 27;5:98. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03037-0

Table 1.

Model results.

Predicted marginal means (S.E.) at age =  69.9 y Correlation coefficient with age
Amyloid negative (N = 58) Amyloid positive (N = 38) P valuea Amyloid negative (N =  58) P value
CSF leak Qleak > 0? 20/58 10/38 0.40*
Qleak (mL/h) 2.6 (0.6) 2.6 (0.8) 0.92 −0.36 0.0050
Aβ clearance kBPD38 (h−1) 0.31 (0.02) 0.22 (0.03) 0.015 −0.68 <0.0001
kBPD40 (h−1) 0.37 (0.03) 0.24 (0.03) 0.0024 −0.59 <0.0001
kBPD42 (h−1) 0.53 (0.06) 0.96 (0.07) <0.0001 −0.27 0.044
kBPD42/kBPD38 2.1 (0.4) 5.3 (0.5) <0.0001 0.24 0.069
kBPD42/kBPD40 1.7 (0.3) 4.8 (0.4) <0.0001 0.13 0.33
kBPD40/kBPD38 1.36 (0.08) 1.1 (0.1) 0.10 0.21 0.11
Aβ production (w/o mutation carriers) Vmax,γ42/Vmax,γ38 1.02 (0.04)b 1.07 (0.06)c 0.52 0.28b 0.039
Vmax,γ42 (μg/(mL·h)) 125 (5)b 139 (8)c 0.15 0.34b 0.013
APP production (w/o mutation carriers) kf (ng/h) 3500 (300)b 3400 (500)c 0.79 −0.58b <0.0001
Total gray volume (mL) 590 (8)b 570 (10)c 0.15 −0.42b 0.0014
Exchange kex42 (h−1) 0.06 (0.02) 0.17 (0.02) <0.0001 0.087 0.52
CSF fluid flow QCSF=Qglymph (mL/h) 23 (1) 26 (2) 0.31 −0.0062 0.99
Qosc (mL/h) 8.8 (0.8) 11 (1) 0.16 0.47 <0.0001
[Aβ40]ISF/[Aβ40]lumbar 10.1 (0.8) 10 (1) 0.85 −0.51 <0.0001
Predicted cisternography half-life (h) 20.7 (0.6) 19.8 (0.7) 0.32 −0.30 0.021
VCSF (mL) 300 (10) 310 (10) 0.47 0.38 0.0030
Flux Aβ38 CSF-based (ng/min) 3.1 (0.4) 3.4 (0.5) 0.54 −0.24 0.070
BBB + proteolysis (ng/min) 4.9 (0.4) 3.2 (0.5) 0.0082 −0.81 <0.0001
% CSF-based 43 (3) 52 (3) 0.037 0.47 <0.0001
Flux Aβ40 CSF-based (ng/min) 14 (2) 17 (2) 0.29 −0.33 0.011
BBB + proteolysis (ng/min) 28 (2) 16 (3) 0.0037 −0.76 <0.0001
% CSF-based 39 (2) 50 (3) 0.0042 0.45 <0.0001
Flux Aβ42 CSF-based (ng/min) 2.2 (0.2) 1.7 (0.3) 0.19 −0.30 0.021
BBB + proteolysis (ng/min) 4.1 (0.4) 1.6 (0.5) <0.0001 −0.70 <0.0001
Deposition (ng/min) 1.4 (0.4) 4.6 (0.5) <0.0001 −0.21 0.11
% CSF-based 33 (2) 22 (3) 0.0014 0.33 0.012

*Chi-square statistic = 0.71.

at test of predicted marginal means (least-squares means) except where noted by *. See Supplementary Table 5 for interactions between age and amyloid status; italic values signify: P < 0.05; bold italic values signify: P < 0.01.

bN = 54.

cN = 33.