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Table 1 Demographic information of the participants at risk of ADAD living in Mexico or in the U.S.

From: Attitudes about involvement in hypothetical clinical trial protocols in Mexican and Mexican-American at risk for autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease

 

Mexico (n=50)

U.S. (n=24)

Overall (n=74)

p value

No. of females (%)

33 (66)

18 (75)

51 (68.90)

0.593

Age (SD)

38.20 (12.38)

32.83 (9.63)

36.5 (11.80)

0.068

Years of schooling (SD)

11.10 (4.18)

13.61 (2.06)

11.9 (3.80)

0.003

Speak Spanish as the preferred language (%)

50 (100)

2 (8.33)

52 (70.30)

<0.001

Living in urban/suburban (%)

24 (48)

23 (95.83)

47 (63.50)

<0.001

Currently attending school (%)

8 (16)

8 (33.33)

16 (21.60)

0.131

Plan on attending further school (%)

13 (28.3)

7 (35)

20 (30.3)

0.576

Have children (%)

34 (70.83)

14 (58.33)

48 (66.7)

0.303

Plan to have children (%)

7 (15.55)

9 (39.13)

16 (23.50)

0.039

  1. The variables age and years of schooling are shown as mean and in parentheses, standard deviation
  2. ADAD autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. United States, SD standard deviation