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Table 1 Demographic, educational, and cognitive test variables according to the presence or absence of dementia

From: Diagnostic accuracy of the Eurotest for dementia: a naturalistic, multicenter phase II study

 

Total (n = 481)

Patients with dementia (n = 101)

Patients with no dementia (n = 380)

p

Age, years (SD)

72.0 (6.9)

75.5 (6.3)

71.1 (6.8)

< 0.001

Sex

   

0.02

   Men

224 (46.6%)

37 (36.6%)

187 (49.2%)

 

   Women

257 (53.4%)

64 (63.4%)

193 (50.8%)

 

Completed primary education

272 (54.5%)

50 (49.5%)

212 (55.8%)

0.16

Literacy

318 (66.1%)

58 (57.4%)

260 (68.4%)

0.03

Daily use of currency

380 (79.0%)

55 (54.5%)

325 (65.5%)

< 0.001

Good handling of currency

296 (61.5%)

36 (35.6%)

260 (68.4%)

< 0.001

GDS*

   

< 0.001

   Stage 1

216 (44.9%)

 

216 (58.7%)

 

   Stage 2

107 (22.2%)

 

107 (29.1%)

 

   Stage 3

64 (13.3%)

19 (18.8%)

45 (12.2%)

 

   Stage 4

58 (12.1%)

58 (57.4%)

  

   Stage 5–7

24 (4.9%)

24 (23.7%)

  

sVFT score (SD)

13.5 (5.7)

8.2 (3.8)

14.9 (5.3)

< 0.001

Eurotest

    

   Score (SD)

22.5 (8.3)

11.5 (6.9)

25.5 (5.7)

< 0.001

   Duration, min (SD)

8.2 (2.0)

9.2 (2.6)

8.0 (2.5)#

< 0.001

  1. sVFT, Verbal Fluency Test (semantic). GDS, Global Deterioration Scale.
  2. *GDS reported in 469 subjects. # Time measured in 378 subjects.