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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants

From: Decrease in naturally occurring antibodies against epitopes of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk gene products is associated with cognitive decline in AD

Variable

CN (n = 56)

MCI (n = 16)

AD (n = 56)

χ2/F

P values

Female, no. (%)

36 (64.3)

11 (68.8)

42 (75.0)

1.52

0.467

Age, mean ± SD, y

69.1 ± 7.3

71.8 ± 9.2

71.6 ± 7.9

1.70

0.186

Education, median (IQR), y

15 (12.0–15.0)

12 (8.0–16.0)

9 (9.0–14.0)

17.34

< 0.001

MMSE, median (IQR)

29 (29.0–30.0)

24 (21.0–27.0)

19 (14.0–23.0)

86.320

< 0.001

  1. Chi-square (χ2) test was used for analysis of gender. Age was analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Education and MMSE score were analyzed using Kruskal–Wallis test
  2. IQR interquartile range, AD Alzheimer’s disease, CN cognitively normal controls, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, SD standard deviation