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Table 1 Demographics, clinical, and neuroimaging characteristics of the participants

From: Association of cortical and subcortical microstructure with disease severity: impact on cognitive decline and language impairments in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Characteristics

bvFTD

nfvPPA

svPPA

Cognitively unimpaired

n

41

35

34

60

Sex male/female, n

28/13a

17/18a

21/13a

24/36a

Race, white, n (%)

42 (100)a

35 (100)a

34 (100)a

60 (100)a

Education, years

15.1 (3.1)a

15.8 (2.5)a

15.9 (2.8)a

16.5 (2.0)a

Age at MRI, years

60.7 (6.3)a

68.3 (7.4)b

63.3 (6.3)a

60.1 (7.9)e

CDR® plus NACC FTLD-SB

9.4 (4.0)

4.3 (2.8)

5.9 (2.9)

-

CDR-BEHAV

1.7 (0.8)

0.5 (0.5)

1.1 (0.6)

-

CDR-LANG

0.9 (0.6)

1.4 (0.7)

1.0 (0.6)

-

Verbal Fluency Test (VFT)

-

 Verbal fluency—D words

5.0 (4.9)c

5.1 (4.3)c

7.8 (4.6)de

-

 Verbal fluency—animals

8.1 (6.8)a

8.3 (7.1)a

7.9 (5.3)a

-

 Boston Naming Test (BNT)

10.9 (4.6)c

10.5 (5.1)c

4.8 (3.5)de

-

 CDR_SB

7.0 (3.2)ce

2.3 (2.4)d

3.8 (2.1)d

-

Global CDR

-

 0.0 = no impairment, n (%)

5 (12.2)

6 (17.1)

2 (5.9)

-

 0.5 = questionable impairment, n (%)

19 (46.3)

20 (57.2)

9 (26.5)

-

 1.0 = mild impairment, n (%)

15 (36.6)

6 (17.1)

18 (52.9)

-

 2.0 = moderate impairment, n (%)

2 (4.9)

3 (8.6)

5 (14.7)

-

 eTIV, mL

1547.8 (169.8)a

1473.3 (166.1)a

1547.6 (154.6)a

1474.5 (158.6)a

  1. Demographics, clinical, and neuroimaging characteristics of the participants. Values reported are mean ± standard deviation
  2. bvFTD behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, BNT boston naming test, CDR® plus NACC FTLD-SB clinical dementia rating plus national Alzheimer’s coordinating center behavior and language domains sum of boxes, CDR-BEHAV clinical dementia rating: behavior subscore, CDR-LANG clinical dementia rating: language subscore, CDR_SB clinical dementia rating sum of boxes, eTIV estimated total intracranial volume, nfvPPA nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia, svPPA semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, VFT verbal fluency test
  3. aNon-significant differences
  4. bDifferent from the cognitively unimpaired (p < 0.05)
  5. cDifferent from the svPPA group (p < 0.05)
  6. dDifferent from the bvFTD group (p < 0.05)
  7. eDifferent from the nfPPA group (p < 0.05)