Table 1 Characteristics of patients and healthy subjects.

From: Insular atrophy at the prodromal stage of dementia with Lewy bodies: a VBM DARTEL study

Characteristic

pro-DLB

mild-DLB

pro-AD

mild-AD

HC

Participants

54

15

16

28

22

Female

31

7

5

19

12

Age, years (SD)

69.3 (9.0)

74.3 (10.4)*

75.3 (9.2)**

74.1 (8.8)**

65.6 (9.2)

MMSE score (SD) (max 30)

27.6 (1.4)

20.7 (3.4)

27.1 (1.4)

19.3 (3.3)

29.0 (1.0)

Participants with visual hallucinations

23

9

0

2

0

Participants with fluctuations

32

8

0

4

0

Participants with parkinsonism

40

10

3

7

0

  1. pro-DLB, dementia with Lewy bodies at the prodromal stage; mild-DLB, dementia with Lewy bodies at the stage of dementia; pro-AD, Alzheimer’s disease at the prodromal stage; mild-AD, Alzheimer’s disease at the stage of dementia; HC, healthy controls. MMSE: mini mental state examination. SD: standard deviation.
  2. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 compared to HC resulting from ANOVA and post hoc analysis.
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