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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics at inclusion in the study

From: Alpha-synuclein measured in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, or healthy controls: a two year follow-up study

Characteristics

AD-AD 26

MCI-AD 25

MCI-MCI 23

CTR 25

p-value

Gender, n (%)

 Female

13 (50.0)

14 (56.0)

10 (43.5)

15 (60.0)

 

 Male

13 (50.0)

11 (44.0)

13 (56.5)

10 (40.0)

0.68

Age at inclusion

 (mean ± SD)

64.2 ± 6.2

63.7 ± 4.4

65.4 ± 6.1

67.3 ± 5.0

0.10

Age at onset

 (mean ± SD)

61.3 ± 6.3

61.0 ± 4.5

62. 9 ± 6.7

na

0.50

Duration of symptoms

 (mean ± SD)

3.0 ± 1.8

2.8 ± 1.0

2.9 ± 2.3

na

0.94

Ten Word Test (delayed recall)

 (mean ± SD)

1.6 ± 1.6

2.1 ± 1.8

3.8 ± 1.8

7.0 ± 1.7

<0.0005

MMSE, n (%)

  < 27

24 (92.7)

12 (48.0)

4 (17.4)

0 (0)

 

  ≥ 27

2 (7.7)

13 (52.0 )

19 (82.6)

25 (100.0)

<0.0005

APOE ɛ4 carrier

n (%)

21 (80.8)

19 (76.0)

12 (54.5)

7 (28.0)

<0.0005

 Aβ42 (pg/mL)

498.7 ± 208.5

535.0 ± 176.3

647.7 ± 344.5

1080.5 ± 266.1

<0.0005

 Aβ40 (pg/mL)

15265 ± 5386

15003 ± 4453

14216 ± 8073

18207 ± 6595

0.24

 T-tau (pg/mL)

769.0 ± 405.4

733.7 ± 515.5

369.0 ± 345.6

297.9 ± 129.9

<0.0005

 P-tau (pg/mL)

96.6 ± 35.6

90.6 ± 33.8

60.1 ± 27.8

57.0 ± 16.8

<0.0005

  1. AD-AD patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at inclusion, MCI-AD patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment at inclusion, progressing to AD during 2 years of follow-up, MCI-MCI patients with MCI at inclusion keeping their initial diagnosis during 2 years of follow-up, CTR healthy control individuals
  2. MMSE mini mental state examination, Ten-Word Test from ADAS Cog
  3. T-tau total tau, P-tau phosphorylated tau
  4. APOE genotype missing for one MCI-MCI patient
  5. Na not applicable