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Table 1 Participant characteristics at baseline by biomarker-defined groups in the ADNI database

From: Interleukin-3 is associated with sTREM2 and mediates the correlation between amyloid-β and tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease

Characteristic

Stage 0

Stage 1

Stage 2

SNAP

P value

N

43

34

118

30

Age, mean (SD), y

75.28 (5.4)

75.25 (5.4)

74.81 (7.2)

77.11 (7.3)

0.413

Female, n (%)

15 (34.9)

9 (26.5)

53 (44.9)

11 (36.7)

0.226

Education, mean (SD), y

15.58 (3.0)

15.50 (3.7)

15.73 (3.1)

15.87 (2.8)

0.961

APOE ε4 carriers, n (%)

4 (9.3)

16 (47.1)

85 (72.0)

6 (20.0)

< 0.001

MMSE score, mean (SD)

28.53 (1.3)

26.38 (2.5)

25.93 (2.7)

28.13 (1.9)

< 0.001

AD diagnosis, n (%)

1 (2.3)

6 (17.6)

39 (33.1)

3 (10.0)

< 0.001

CSF IL-3, mean (SD)

− 2.12 (0.3)

− 2.37 (0.3)

− 2.21 (0.3)

− 1.97 (0.3)

< 0.001

CSF biomarkers, mean (SD), pg/ml

 CSF sTREM2

4451.21 (2129.9)

3043.37 (1284.5)

4547.32 (2000.8)

5446.16 (1895.3)

< 0.001

 CSF Aβ42

1445.07 (256.5)

632.19 (199.7)

609.02 (167.5)

1549.27 (428.8)

< 0.001

 CSF p-tau

16.89 (2.8)

16.38 (3.7)

35.95 (10.0)

29.00 (10.7)

< 0.001

 CSF t-tau

191.95 (31.4)

178.69 (34.7)

356.87 (91.6)

314.17 (86.7)

< 0.001

  1. β-amyloid, AD Alzheimer’s disease, CSF cerebrospinal fluid, IL-3 interleukin-3, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, p-tau phosphorylated tau, t-tau total tau
  2. P values were computed with the one-way analysis of covariance test for age, education, MMSE score, CSF IL-3, CSF sTREM2, CSF Aβ42, CSF t-tau, CSF p-tau; with the χ2 test for sex and APOE status