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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants in the cross-section cohort

From: Evaluating the diagnostic performance of six plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative dementias in a large Chinese cohort

Characteristic

AD + aMCI

(n = 245)

PSP

(n = 100)

FTD

(n = 67)

DLB

(n = 72)

HC

(n = 184)

p-value1

Sex (Male, %)

40%

61%

60%

60%

46%

0.17

Age of onset (Years)

63.1 ± 9.8

65.2 ± 6.9

61.9 ± 9.5

71.4 ± 9.1

67.6 ± 6.5

< 0.001

APOE E42

43%

15%

31%

36%

17%

< 0.001

Education (Years)

9.2 ± 3.6

8.7 ± 3.3

9.2 ± 3.4

8.3 ± 3.7

8.1 ± 2.0

< 0.001

MMSE

16.4 ± 8.4

22.0 ± 6.4

15.9 ± 9.2

14.2 ± 7.4

28.9 ± 0.9

< 0.001

MoCA

11.3 ± 6.8

14.0 ± 6.4

11.0 ± 7.2

7.9 ± 6.0

  

CDR

1.1 ± 0.1

/

1.3 ± 0.1

1.4 ± 0.1

  

CSF Aβ42 (pg/ml)

392.3 ± 230.0

1,292.2 ± 772.1

757.4 ± 389.6

506.5 ± 536.2

  

CSF Aβ40 (pg/ml)

6,566.6 ± 4,219.4

10,982.8 ± 7,062.0

7,618.5 ± 6,280.7

7,604.6 ± 6,423.5

  

CSF Aβ42/40

0.07 ± 0.04

0.1 ± 0.04

0.1 ± 0.1

0.09 ± 0.07

  

CSF t-tau (pg/ml)

397.6 ± 268.5

225.4 ± 81.5

225.0 ± 162.0

282.3 ± 161.6

  

CSF p-tau (pg/ml)

94.0 ± 53.2

27.0 ± 13.6

25.6 ± 12.6

55.2 ± 33.8

  
  1. 1p values were compared between AD + aMCI and HC using Pearson’s Chi-squared test and Wilcoxon rank sum test; 2APOE E4 was defined as ε3ε4 or ε4ε4