Table 1 Demographic and neuropsychological results.

From: Towards affordable biomarkers of frontotemporal dementia: A classification study via network’s information sharing

 

bvFTD patients

Controls matched with bvFTD patients

p-value

AD patients

Controls matched with AD patients

p-value

Sex (female:male)

13 (7:6)

25 (15:10)

0.71

13 (11:2)

18 (12:6)

0.26

Age (years)

69.31 (10.55)

70.40 (5.22)

0.67

75.62 (9.42)

72.28 (4.42)

0.20

Education (years)

15 (3.34)

16.96 (3.47)

0.10

12.77 (7.60)

15.94 (3.35)

0.12

ACE (global score)

70.77 (10.66)

92.17 (6.84)

<0.001

78.62 (11.86)

93.12 (6.06)

<0.001

RAVLT (immediate recall score)

24.23 (8.87)

42.89 (10.07)

<0.001

27.46 (8.25)

42.68 (10.19)

<0.001

RAVLT (delayed recall score)

3.69 (2.81)

7.28 (3.32)

0.002

1.31 (3.12)

7.11 (3.38)

<0.001

IFS (global score)

15.65 (4.39)

24.94 (2.25)

<0.001

17.77 (7.57)

25.40 (2.26)

<0.001

  1. Means and (standard deviation). bvFTD = behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, AD = Alzheimer disease. We used t-test for variables comparisons between groups and, particularly, the pearson chi squared test for sex variable.
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