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Table 3 Prevalence and performance of hypometabolism patterns in discriminating DLB from ADD and PD patients

From: Brain glucose metabolism in Lewy body dementia: implications for diagnostic criteria

Prevalence (%) of hypometabolism patterns

 

DLB-like

AD-like

PD-like

DLB

64/72 (88.9%)

8/72 (11.1%)

0/72 (0%)

ADD

3/60 (5%)

57/60 (95%)

0/60 (0%)

PD

5/36 (13.8%)

0/36 (0%)

31/36 (86.1%)

Discriminative performance of hypometabolism patterns

 

Sensitivity

Specificity

Accuracy

DLB vs. ADD

0.89  (0.79–0.95)

0.95 (0.86–0.99)

0.92 (0.86–0.96)

DLB vs. PD

1 (0.94–1)

0.86 (0.70–0.95)

0.95 (0.89–0.98)

  1. Abbreviations: ADD Alzheimer’s disease dementia, DLB dementia with Lewy bodies, PD Parkinson’s disease