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Table 1 Longitudinal cohort baseline characteristics

From: The relevance of cerebrospinal fluid α-synuclein levels to sporadic and familial Alzheimer’s disease

 

Controls

MCI

Alzheimer’s

disease

p-valuec

All

MCI-MCI

MCI-AD

N

57

54

27

27

27

Sex (% f/m)

65/35

53/47

44/56

59/41

52/48

- d

Age at examination (yrs)a

68 ± 5

65 ± 6

66 ± 6

64 ± 4

64 ± 6

** e

MMSEb

30 (28–30)

28 (23–30)

28 (25–30)

27 (23–29)

23 (16–27)

*** f

APOEε4 carrier (%)

38 (n = 55)

66

63

74

81

*** d

CSF

969.7

546.5

574.3

539.0

476.8

*** f

1–42

(500–1674)

(173–1269)

(173–1269)

(283–1060)

(212–1092)

(pg/mL)b

(n = 45)

CSF

17.1

13.5

12.9

14.2

14.9

** f

1–40

(11–41)

(4–31)

(4–31)

(8–23)

(7–29)

(ng/mL) b

(n = 41)

(n = 26)

(n = 23)

(n = 26)

CSF

0.059

0.042

0.049

0.039

0.034

*** f

42/40 b

(0.013–0.096)

(0.008–0.118)

(0.008–0.118)

(0.012–0.088)

(0.007–0.080)

(n = 41)

(n = 26)

(n = 23)

(n = 26)

CSF

269.0

447.9

315.2

550.8

624.2

*** f

t-tau

(138–1314)

(99–2325)

(99–1057)

(163–2325)

(177–1540)

(pg/mL)b

(n = 46)

CSF

53.5

69.9

53.0

85.6

90.8

*** f

p-tau

(33–135)

(16–169)

(16–131)

(37–169)

(28–157)

(pg/mL)b

(n = 46)

  1. MCI = mild cognitive impairment MCI-MCI = MCI patients who remained MCI at the 24-month follow up
  2. MCI-AD = MCI patients who converted to Alzheimer’s disease at the 24-month follow up
  3. MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination score
  4. a = mean ± standard deviation b = median (minimum-maximum)
  5. c = P-value reflecting potential differences between the groups Controls, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease d = χ2 test e = one-way ANOVA f = Kruskal-Wallis test - = non-significant
  6. ** = p ≤ 0.01 *** = p ≤ 0.001