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Table 1 Baseline demographics and clinical characteristics of the subjects (safety population)

From: Safety and tolerability of donepezil 23 mg with or without intermediate dose titration in patients with Alzheimer’s disease taking donepezil 10 mg: a multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel-design, three-arm, prospective trial

Variables

Group 1 (n = 51)

Group 2 (n = 55)

Group 3 (n = 54)

p

Age, years

74.8 ± 8.2

75.0 ± 9.6

75.8 ± 8.2

0.867

Female, %

60.8%

60.0%

63.0%

0.958

Education, %low/med/high

49/25.5/25.5

56.4/21.8/21.8

51.9/29.6/18.5

0.834

K-MMSE

12.9 ± 5.3

13.7 ± 4.3

14.4 ± 4.7

0.247

CDR

1.6 ± 0.6

1.7 ± 0.7

1.7 ± 0.5

0.877

GDS

4.9 ± 0.6

4.8 ± 0.7

4.9 ± 0.7

0.679

Body weight, kg

57.8 ± 8.7

59.2 ± 11.4

57.5 ± 9.9

0.628

BMI

23.9 ± 2.7

24.1 ± 3.6

23.6 ± 3.1

0.752

Duration of donepezil, years

1.8 ± 2.1

1.9 ± 2.0

2.0 ± 2.1

0.791

History of side effect d/t donepezil, %

3.9%

7.3%

3.7%

0.733

Hypertension, %

43.1%

58.2%

40.7%

0.147

DM, %

19.6%

27.3%

25.9%

0.661

Hyperlipidemia, %

33.3%

38.2%

35.2%

0.895

Brain injury, %

7.8%

7.3%

9.3%

0.937

Concomitant memantine

16/51, 31.4%

14/55, 25.5%

14/54, 25.9%

0.753

  1. Educational level up to 6 years (elementary school) was rated as low, up to 12 years (graduation high school) was rated as medium, and above 12 years was rated as high
  2. K-MMSE Korean version of Mini-Mental State Examination, CDR clinical dementia rating, GDS general deterioration scale, BMI body mass index, DM diabetes mellitus