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Table 1 Demographic characteristics and CSF parameters of healthy controls, CAA patients, and AD patients

From: MFG-E8 (LACTADHERIN): a novel marker associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy

 

Control (n = 37)

CAA (n = 23)

AD (n = 26)

p-Value

Demographics

Age, years, mean ± SD

63.8 ± 8.5

70.6 ± 7.8**

64.3 ± 7.3$

0.004

Sex (female), n (%)

11 (29.7%)

7 (30.4%)

14 (53.8%)

0.110

CSF parameters, pg/ml

Aβ40, mean ± SD

10,187.9 ± 4009.1

7911.1 ± 3140.1

-

0.032

Aβ42, median (IQR)

895.1 (678–1225)

360 (317.5–462)***

514.6 (468.6–593.5)***

 < 0.001

t-Tau, median (IQR)

231 (170–317)

403 (268–512.5)**

328.6 (183.4–395.3)

0.002

p-Tau, median (IQR)

28 (19–39)

45 (33.5–63.5)**

32.4 (18.1–39.6)$

0.001

MFG-E8, median (IQR)

4568.4 (3672.3–5898)

3345.5 (2661.8–4648.3)*

5655.6 (4552.6–6849.2)$$$

 < 0.001

  1. CAA, Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range; -, not known. p-values below 0.05 are shown in bold: *p < 0.05 vs. the control group; **p < 0.01 vs. the control group; ***p < 0.001 vs. the control group; $p < 0.05 vs. the CAA group; $$$ p < 0.001 vs. the CAA group