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Table 1 Characteristics of study subjects

From: Associations of healthy lifestyles with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in cognitively intact older adults: the CABLE study

Characteristic

No. (n = 1108)

Age (years)

61.1 ± 11.0 (41 to 89)

Sex (F/M)

461/647

Education (years)

9.8 ± 4.4

CM-MMSE

28.2 ± 1.9

MoCA

23.8 ± 4.0

*APOE ε4 (carriers/non-carriers)

161/800

*CSF Aβ42 (pg/ml)

167.6 ± 79.5

*CSF Aβ40 (pg/ml)

5981.8 ± 2728.5

*CSF tau (pg/ml)

171.3 ± 76.1

*CSF p-tau (pg/ml)

36.8 ± 9.1

Healthy lifestyle factors (n, %)

 No current smoking

888 (80.1%)

 No or moderate drinking

951 (85.8%)

 Regular physical activity

275 (24.8%)

 Absence of social isolation

868 (78.3%)

No. of healthy lifestyle factors (n, %)

 0

9 (0.8%)

 1

84 (7.6%)

 2

302 (27.3%)

 3

558 (50.4%)

 4

155 (14.0%)

  1. Summarized as mean ± standard deviation (SD) for continuous data and count for categorical data. Abbreviations: CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; p-tau, phosphorylated tau
  2. * Data were missing for CSF Aβ42 (n = 162, 14.6%), CSF Aβ40 (n = 198, 17.9%), CSF tau (n = 92, 8.3%), CSF p-tau (n = 90, 8.1%), and APOE ε4 statues (n = 147, 13.3%)