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Table 3 A breakdown of the eventual diagnosis among participants who reported each of the three symptom clusters of neuropsychiatric symptoms at baseline

From: Neuropsychiatric symptoms in cognitively normal older persons, and the association with Alzheimer’s and non-Alzheimer’s dementia

Dementia subtype

Presence of affective symptomsa

Presence of agitation symptomsa

Presence of psychotic symptomsa

Yes (n = 2372)

No (n = 10,080)

Yes (n = 1773)

No (n = 10,679)

Yes (n = 123)

No (n = 12,329)

All-cause dementia

193 (8.1%)

531 (5.3%)

153 (8.6%)

571 (5.4%)

23 (18.7%)

701 (5.7%)

Alzheimer’s dementia

136 (5.7%)

419 (4.2%)

111 (6.3%)

444 (4.2%)

12 (9.8%)

543 (4.4%)

Vascular dementia

15 (0.6%)

42 (0.4%)

9 (0.5%)

48 (0.5%)

2 (1.6%)

55 (0.5%)

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

16 (0.7%)

23 (0.2%)

8 (0.5%)

31 (0.3%)

4 (3.3%)

35 (0.3%)

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

8 (0.3%)

6 (0.1%)

8 (0.5%)

6 (0.1%)

2 (1.6%)

12 (0.1%)

Other or unknown subtype of dementia

18 (0.8%)

41 (0.4%)

17 (1.0%)

42 (0.4%)

3 (2.4%)

56 (0.5%)

  1. aAffective symptoms included depression, anxiety, and apathy. Agitation symptoms included disinhibition, agitation, and irritability. Psychotic symptoms included delusions and hallucinations