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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Neurobiol. 2019 Sep 11;79(7):684–698. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22715

Table 3. Excluded studies and reasons for exclusion.

Study Reason of exclusion
1. Obeid, Hübner, Bodis, and Geisel (2016) Age of subjects <16 years
2. Rafii et al. (2017) Pilot study with no clear numerical results of mean plasma amyloid levels ± SD presented
3. Matsubara et al. (2004) Measured levels of the soluble form of amyloid; no clear numerical results of mean plasma amyloid levels ± SD presented
4. Cavani et al. (2000) Measured levels of the soluble form of amyloid
5. Mehta et al. (2001) No clear numerical results of mean plasma tau levels ± SD presented
6. Mehta et al. (2007) Age of subjects <16 years
7. Tokuda et al. (1997) Study older than 20 years (published before 1998)
8. Lee, Chien, and Hwu (2017) Dementia diagnosis on the basis of a screening tool (Adaptive Behavior Dementia Questionnaire [ABDQ])
9. Hamlett et al. (2017) Measured neuronal exosome contents, not plasma concentrations
10. Mehta et al. (1998) Reported only median values, not means
11. Mehta et al. (2003) Reported only median values, not means
12. Schupf et al. (2007) Sample overlap with Schupf et al. (2010)