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Table 1 Subject characteristics

From: Declining functional connectivity and changing hub locations in Alzheimer’s disease: an EEG study

 

Controls

AD patients

  
  

Severe

Moderate

Mild

N

133

117

96

105

Age, Yearsa

67.8(6.3)

68.1(8.5)

70.7(8.8)

69.9(9.6)

Sex, Female

59(63 %)b

62(53 %)

52(54 %)

40(38 %)

MMSE-scorea

28.5(1.3)c

15.4(3.5)

21.5(1.1)

25.8(1.6)

Disease duration, yearsa

n.a.

4.1(2.5)

3.5(2.1)

3.2(1.9)

Using AChEIa

1(0.8 %)

8(6.8 %)

5(5.2 %)

5(4.8 %)

Educationa d

5.4 (1.2)

4.2 (1.5)

4.8 (1.3)

5.3 (1.2)

  1. The data is represented as mean (SD) or number (percentage)
  2. AChEI Acetyl-cholinesterase inhibitor, MMSE mini mental-state examination
  3. aThese variables where tested using ANOVA. We corrected the results for multiple comparison using a post-hoc Bonferroni test
  4. bgender differences of p < 0.01 were found between mild AD and severe/moderate AD
  5. cMMSE differences of p < 0.01 were found between all group combinations
  6. dLevel of education was rated according to Verhage [51]