Table 1 Clinical, demographic and neuropathological data of cases stratified into eight dissemination categories

From: Sympathetic and parasympathetic subtypes of body-first Lewy body disease observed in postmortem tissue from prediagnostic individuals

Regions positive

1–2

3–4

5–6

7–8

9–10

11–12

13–14

15–16

Age (avg) (years)

83

81

84

82

87

81

86

85

Cases (n)

Total

32

20

4

18

9

21

34

35

Brain-first

17

14

2

7

4

10

9

6

Body-first

13

6

2

6

4

5

10

8

Indeterminate

2

0

0

5

1

6

15

21

PD or DLB (n)

Total

0

0

0

0

0

3

16

25

Brain-first

0

0

0

0

0

3

4

3

Body-first

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

5

Indeterminate

0

0

0

0

0

0

8

17

AD (n)

Total

7

4

1

2

1

5

10

6

Brain-first

7

4

1

2

1

4

4

2

Body-first

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

Indeterminate

0

0

0

0

0

1

5

4

Braak α-syn (avg)

0.81

2.00

2.75

3.00

3.22

3.57

4.79

5.17

Braak α-syn (PD or DLB)

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

5.00

5.13

5.60

BBAR α-syn (avg)

0.72

0.83

1.00

0.97

1.22

1.57

3.23

3.48

NFT (avg)

2.78

2.75

3.25

2.56

2.78

2.67

3.06

2.51

SP (avg)

1.63

1.50

2.00

1.28

1.44

1.48

1.94

1.57

Clinical stage

Prediagnostic

Prediagnostic

Prediagnostic

Prediagnostic

Prediagnostic

Mostly prediagnostic

Postdiagnostic

Postdiagnostic

  1. For eight dissemination categories, the following data are listed: average (avg) age, total number (n) of cases and numbers of cases (n) in brain-first, body-first and indeterminate categories; number of cases with a PD or DLB diagnosis or an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis; average Braak Lewy body stage in all cases and in those patient groups with a PD or DLB diagnosis; averaged BBAR, neurofibrillary tangle (NFT), senile plaque (SP) stages.