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Table 1 Demographic and cognitive characteristics of the elderly

From: Frontotemporal structure preservation underlies the protective effect of lifetime intellectual cognitive reserve on cognition in the elderly

 

Behavioral sample (n = 5126)

MRI subsample (n = 1117)

Demographic

 Sex (female, %)

3202 (62.5%)

740 (66.2%)

 Age (years)

66.26 ± 6.04

65.64 ± 5.87

Disease Number

 0

1498 (29.2%)

217 (19.4%)

 1

1641 (32.0%)

345 (30.9%)

 2

1084 (21.1%)

282 (25.2%)

 ≥ 3

903 (17.7%)

273 (24.5%)

Cognitive State

 Mild Cognitive Impairment

1052 (20.52%)

174 (15.6%)

 Normal Cognition

4074 (79.48%)

943 (84.4%)

Lifetime Intellectual Cognitive Reserve

0.13 ± 0.74

0.17 ± 0.71

 Early-Years of Education

10.68 ± 3.40

11.51 ± 3.03

 Middle-Occupational Complexity

6.48 ± 3.91

6.61 ± 4.00

 Later-Mental Leisure Activity

57.60 ± 22.52

58.07 ± 21.91

Cognitive Function

Episodic Memory

 

0.04 ± 0.69

 AVLT-N1N3

16.70 ± 4.86

 

 AVLT-N4

5.48 ± 2.42

 

 AVLT-N5

4.93 ± 2.56

 

Language Ability

 

0.17 ± 0.53

 CVFT-Animal

16.86 ± 3.89

 

 CVFT-Vagetable

14.21 ± 3.36

 

 CVFT-Fruit

12.23 ± 2.88

 

Executive Processing Ability

 

0.19 ± 0.62

 TMT A time (s)

62.14 ± 23.67

 

 TMT B-A time (s)

110.05 ± 58.78

 

 SDMT

31.26 ± 10.54

 

 DST-backward

4.35 ± 1.30

 

General Cognitive Ability

 

0.10 ± 0.34

  1. MRI subsample was from the behavioral sample. The demographic information and cognitive test scores are represented by the mean and standard deviation
  2. Abbreviation AVLT, Auditory Verbal Learning Test, CVFT Category Verbal Fluency Test, TMT Trail Making Test, SDMT Symbol Digit Modalities Test, DST Digit Span Test