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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Associations of thyroid hormone serum levels with in-vivo Alzheimer’s disease pathologies

 

CN (n = 148)

Age (years)

68.93 ± 7.85

Education (years)

11.67 ± 4.85

Gender, female (%)

92 (62.2)

CDR

0

APOE ε4 allele(+) (%)

25 (16.9)

HRSD

0.86 ± 1.60

VRS

1.07 ± 0.92

Neuropsychological testsa

 MMSE score

26.94 ± 2.58

 Animal fluency

16.22 ± 4.70

 Boston naming

12.27 ± 2.37

 Word list learning

20.15 ± 4.15

 Constructional praxis

10.06 ± 1.37

 Word list recall

6.76 ± 1.83

 Word list recognition

9.24 ± 1.04

 Constructional recall

7.46 ± 2.80

Global amyloid burden (SUVR)

1.16 ± 0.23

Amyloid positivity (%)

16 (10.8)

T3 (mg/dl)

103.84 ± 17.34

Free T3 (pg/ml)

3.11 ± 0.34

Free T4 (ng/dl)

1.17 ± 0.16

TSH (μIU/ml)

2.36 ± 1.57

  1. Data for continuous variables presented as a mean ± SD. Categorical variables presented as N (%)
  2. APOE apolipoprotein E, CDR Clinical Dementia Rating, CN cognitively normal, HRSD Hamilton Depression Rating Score, VRS vascular risk score, MMSE Mini-mental State Examination, SUVR standardized uptake value ratio, T3 triiodothyronine, T4 thyroxine, TSH thyroid-stimulating hormone
  3. a n = 147