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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the F-PACK cohort

From: Baseline cognition is the best predictor of 4-year cognitive change in cognitively intact older adults

 

Total

%

 

Sex (male/female)

99/81

55

 

CDR 0

180

100

 

APOE ε4 heterozygotes

81

45

 

APOE ε4 homozygotes

6

3.33

 

APOE ε2ε3 carriers

16

8.9

 

BDNF codon 66 met carriers

87

48.3

 
 

Mean

S.D.

Range

Age (years)

68.6

6.4

52.4–80.9

Education (years)

14.2

3.4

8.0–23.5

MMSE (/30)

29.1

0.9

27.0–30.0

AVLT TL (/75)

47.3

9.1

26.0–69.0

AVLT %DR

84.5

17.9

30.0–200.0

BSRT TR (/12)

8.1

1.3

4.8–10.8

BSRT DR (/12)

8.0

2.7

1.0–12.0

BNT (/60)

54.6

4.4

38.0–60.0

AVF (# words)

22.5

5.6

9.0–42.0

LVF (# words)

36.3

11.8

9.0–71.0

PALPA49 (/30)

27.2

1.7

20.0–30.0

RPM (/60)

41.7

8.8

15.0–58.0

TMT B/A

2.5

0.9

0.0–6.7

  1. APOE, apolipoprotein E; BDNF, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; CDR, Clinical Dementia Rating Scale total score; MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; AVLT, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test: total learning (AVLT TL) and percentage delayed recall (AVLT %DR); BSRT, Buschke Selective Reminding Test: total retention (BSRT TR) and the delayed recall (BSRT DR); BNT, Boston Naming Test; AVF, Animal Verbal Fluency; LVF, Letter Verbal Fluency Test; PALPA, Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia (PALPA) subtest 49; RPM, Raven’s Progressive Matrices; TMT, Trail Making Test part B divided by part A