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Table 6 Regional age-adjusted regression estimates of CTE tau pathology

From: Tau pathology in the medial temporal lobe of athletes with chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study

 

Neurons with NFT

Neurons with punctate p-tau

Neurite clusters

Dystrophic neurites

PrCa

0.95 (0.46, 1.44)b ***

0.89 (0.37, 1.41) ***

1.59 (0.94, 2.23) ***

0.88 (0.44, 1.31) ***

EC

0.99 (0.44, 1.54) **

0.41 (−0.15, 0.95)

1.50 (0.75, 2.23) ***

0.95 (0.93, 0.98) ***

DG

0.77 (−0.10, 1.58)

1.10 (0.13, 2.05) *

0.61 (0.50, 0.71) ***

0.63 (−0.09, 1.34)

CA3

0.50 (−0.07, 1.06)

0.19 (−0.62, 0.98)

0.76 (− 0.20, 1.66)

0.44 (− 0.12, 0.99)

CA1

0.67 (0.12, 1.20) *

0.26 (−0.34, 0.85)

1.22 (0.55, 1.86) ***

0.55 (0.05, 1.03) *

Sub

0.69 (0.14, 1.22) *

0.32 (0.27, 0.38) ***

1.29 (0.36, 2.17) *

1.06 (0.34, 1.76) **

PrS

1.10 (0.55, 1.64) ***

0.80 (0.16, 1.43) *

1.12 (0.21, 2.01) *

0.79 (0.26, 1.30) *

  1. aPrC Perirhinal cortex, EC Entorhinal cortex, DG Dentate gyrus, CA3 Hippocampus CA3, CA1 Hippocampus CA1, Sub Subiculum, PrS Pre−/parasubiculum
  2. bage-at-death associated regression coefficient (95% confidence interval) with false discovery rate α = 0.03, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001