Table 1 Demographics and scores for both groups younger and older participants

From: Linking structural and functional changes during aging using multilayer brain network analysis

Variables

Young adults

Older adults

p-Value

t-Value

Number of participants

46

46

1.000

–

Number of women

29

29

1.000

–

Age

26.5 (2.01)

64.5 (2.85)

0.001

−73.887

Years of education

22.2 (2.873)

19.1 (3.262)

0.001

4.774

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

2.07 (0.286)

2.67 (0.360)

0.193

−1.313

MMSE

29.5 (0.863)

28.9 (1.173)

0.013

2.531

VSTM

0.5 (0.088)

0.4 (0.069)

0.001

3.890

Cattell

37.8 (3.628)

30.5 (6.285)

0.001

6.766

Hotel_Num_rows

4.7 (0.585)

4.3 (1.008)

0.018

2.420

Hotel_Time

227.7 (119.796)

326.9 (194.305)

0.005

−2.901

  1. MMSE mini-mental state evaluation, VSTM visual short-term memory, Hotel_num_rows corresponding to the number of rows performed by the participant, Hotel_Time corresponding to the time used to perform all rows by the participant. Differences between the two groups were calculated using a t-test.
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