Table 2 Average brain measurement values for the Accelerated and Delayed Aging phenotypes of brain health

From: Investigating nutrient biomarkers of healthy brain aging: a multimodal brain imaging study

Domain

Measure

Accelerated Aging

Delayed Aging

Brain Structure

Volumetric Regions

0.43

0.48

Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tracts

0.49

0.61

Brain Metabolism

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

0.441

0.443

Functional Connectivity

Whole Brain

0.45

0.51

Small World Propensity (network)

0.43

0.52

Strength (network)

0.57

0.45

Local efficiency (network)

0.52

0.47

Global efficiency (network)

0.55

0.43

  1. Values were averaged across all variables listed in Table 1. Before averaging, values for each variable were scaled between 0 and 1.