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Table 1 Characteristics of participants in Dataset 1

From: Prediction of P-tau/Aβ42 in the cerebrospinal fluid with blood microRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease

Characteristic

Total sample

(n = 44)

Controls

(n = 21)

AD

(n =23)

Age, median (25th–75th percentile)

69 (66–73)

69 (67–72)

72 (65–73)

Education year, median (25th–75th percentile)

9 (7–11)

10 (8–11)

9 (7–10) *

Women, No. (%)

23 (52.3)

12 (52.2)

11 (52.4)

ApoE ε4 positive (%)

13 (29.5)

4 (17.4)

9 (42.9) *

MMSE score (SD)

25.2 (4.1)

28.7 (0.8)

22.0 (3.1) *

Aβ42, mean (SD), pg/ml

572.8 (186.4)

740.1 (118.6)

420.1 (63.1)

T-tau, mean (SD), pg/ml

443.3 (206.6)

297.1 (100.2)

576.7 (187.9)

P-tau, mean (SD), pg/ml

104.9 (76.9)

52.9 (20.4)

152.5 (79.2)

  1. The values of age, education year, and MMSE are shown as mean (SD)
  2. Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; VaD, vascular dementia; PDD, Parkinson disease dementia; bvFTD, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; DLB, dementia with Lewy body; ApoE ε4, apolipoprotein ε4; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; SD, standard deviation
  3. *P < 0.05 compared to controls