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Table 1 Sample characteristics in 1997–1999 as a function of dementia status at the end of follow-up (31st March 2019)

From: Circulating serum metabolites as predictors of dementia: a machine learning approach in a 21-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study

 

Dementia*

 

No

Yes

p-value†

N

5045 (93.9)

329 (6.1)

 

Age at baseline, M (SD)

55.4 (5.9)

61.2 (4.7)

<0.001

Sex

 Men

3662 (72.6)

220 (66.9)

0.03

 Women

1383 (27.4)

109 (33.1)

Education

 Low

2198 (43.6)

181 (55.0)

 

 Medium

1335 (26.4)

66 (20.1)

<0.001

 High

1512 (30.0)

82 (24.9)

 

Ethnicity

 White

4656 (92.3)

288 (87.5)

0.002

 Non-white

389 (7.7)

41 (12.5)

  1. Data are n (%), unless otherwise specified
  2. *Data on dementia subtype was as follows: Alzheimer’s disease (N=137), vascular dementia (N=47), Parkinson’s dementia (N=17), mixed Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia (N=21), mixed vascular and Parkinson’s dementia (N=1), mixed Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dementia (N=5), other/missing subtype (N=101)
  3. †p-value for difference in χ2 test (categorical data) or Student’s t test (continuous data)