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Table 1 Cohort characteristics

From: Clinical phenotypes of Alzheimer’s disease: investigating atrophy patterns and their pathological correlates

 

Control

Typical AD

Atypical AD

n = 16

n = 17

n = 16

Sex

(Female)

8

(50%)

4

(23.5%)

5

(31.2%)

Age at death

(In years)

71 (± 8)

[59–85]

69 (± 11)

[53–89]

66 (± 10)

[37–78]

Age at Onset

(In years)

NA

61 (± 10)

[46–81]

61 (± 10)

[32–74]

Disease duration

(In years)

NA

8 (± 3)

[2–14]

4 (± 3)^

[1–10]

Clinical Dementia Rating Scale

NA/0/1/2/3

NA

6/0/5/2/4

2/0/3/2/9

Clinical Subtyping

NA/Behav/dysex/logo/visuo

NA

NA

1/3/5/3/4

APOE genotyping

APOE4 carrier

4 (26.6%)

10 (58.8%)

11 (68.8%)*

Post-Mortem delay

(Hours:minutes)

8:13 (± 1:51)

8:12 (± 1:25)

7:42 (± 1:46)

MRI

   

Normalized Whole Brain Volume

% ICV

70.2 (± 4.5)

60.9 (± 5.6)***

61.1 (± 7.7)***

Normalized Gray Matter Volume

% ICV

40.2 (± 3.3)

35.9 (± 3.3)***

34.9 (± 5.5)**

Normalized White Matter Volume

% ICV

30.0 (± 1.9)

25.0 (± 4.3)***

26.2 (± 4.1)**

Global Cortical Atrophy

0/1/2/3/4

13/3/0/0

2/10/4/1***

5/6/2/3*

Parietal Cortical Atrophy

0/1/2/3/4

10/5/1/0

0/9/6/2***

1/4/8/3***

Medial Temporal Lobe Atrophy

0/1/2/3/4

9/6/1/0/0

1/5/4/4/3**

1/5/4/5/1**

Fazekas

0/1/2/3

6/3/7/0

6/5/1/5*

4/3/6/3

Pathology

   

Braak NFT stage

0/1/2/3/4/5/6

3/10/3/0/0/0/0/

0/0/0/0/3/5/9 ***

0/0/0/0/1/6/9 ***

Thal Aβ phase

0/1/2/3/4/5

3/7/4/2/0/0

0/0/0/1/0/16 ***

0/0/0/0/2/14 ***

Braak LB stage

0/1/2/3/4/5/

14/2/0/0/0/0/

14/0/1/0/1/1/

13/0/0/1/0/2

LATE stage

0/1/2/3

16/0/0/0

11/2/3/1

13/1/1/1

CAA-Type

0/1/2

13/1/2

1/14/2 ***

0/10/6 ***

  1. Data is noted as mean (± standard deviation) [range] or count (ratio %)
  2. NA not available or not applicable, behav behavioral subtype, dysex dysexecutive subtype, logo logopenic subtype, visuo visuospatial subtype NFT Neurofibrillary Tangle, LB Lewy Body, LATE Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP- 43 Encephalopathy, ICV Intracranial Volume
  3. Significance between control and AD phenotypes is denoted with * = p ≤ 0.05, ** = p ≤ 0.01, *** = p ≤ 0.001 and between AD groups similarly with^