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Table 1 Characteristics of the participants

From: Cortical microstructure in primary progressive aphasia: a multicenter study

 

PPA

    

HC

 

nfvPPA

n=52 (43%)

svPPA

n=31 (26%)

lvPPA

n=32 (27%)

PPA-GRN

n=5 (4%)

All PPA

n=120 (100%)

HC

n=89

Cohort, no. (CATFI/UCSF)

18/34

15/16

11/21

3/2

47/73†

54/35†

Demographics, genetic, and clinical features

      

 Age at MRI, years

69.0 (7.3)

67.1 (7.5)

66.3 (7.9)

61.7 (3.3)

67.5 (7.5)

66.0 (6.9)

 Biological sex (men/women)

20/32

16/15

16/16

0/5

52/68

31/58

 APOEɛ4, no. (positive/negative)

9/39

4/21

9/18

0/4

22/82

7/28

 Education, years

14.2 (5.2)

14.6 (4.0)

13.1 (7.2)

12.4 (5.7)

13.9 (5.5)

14.7 (4.4)

 Handedness (right/left)

45/7

28/3

29/3

4/1

106/14

85/4

 Disease duration at MRI, years

4.2 (2.3)

4.5 (3.2)

4.1 (1.8)

2.5 (1.6)

4.2 (2.4)

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Measures of cognition and disease severity

      

 MMSE, /30

25.0 (4.6)‡

23.9 (4.6)

20.7 (6.2)‡

27.0 (2.6)‡

23.7 (5.3)†

29.1 (0.9)†

 CDR® plus NACC FTLD-SB, /24a

3.9 (2.6)§

6.3 (3.2)§

5.1 (2.8)

3.8 (4.6)

4.9 (3.0)†

0.0 (0)†

 Global CDR® plus NACC FTLD = 0.5, no. (%)

20 (38)

6 (19)

9 (28)

1 (20)

36 (30)†

0 (0)†

Biomarkers and autopsy findings

      

 Amyloid PET, no. (positive/negative)

0/21

1/6

13/0

0/0

14/27

1/1

 AD biomarkers in CSF, no. (Positive/Negative)b

3/12

2/12

9/0

0/2

14/26

5/27

 Pathological diagnosis, no. (FTLD/AD)c

16/0

3/0

0/8

2/0

21/8

0/0

  1. Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; CATFI, Catalan Frontotemporal Dementia Initiative; CDR, Clinical Dementia Rating; CDR® plus NACC FTLD-SB, CDR Dementia Staging Instrument plus National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center Behavior and Language Domains sum of boxes; MRI, magnetic resonance image; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; UCSF, University of California San Francisco; lvPPA, logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia; nfvPPA, non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia; svPPA, semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia
  2. aCDR® plus NACC FTLD-SB was available in 183 (88%) of participants (94 PPA and 89 HC)
  3. bA positive Alzheimer’s disease biomarker profile was defined by an abnormal Aß1-42 to Aß1-40 ratio and a total-tau to Aß1-42 ratio
  4. cThe 21 FTLD cases included 6 cases with corticobasal degeneration (all in the nfvPPA group), 5 cases with progressive supranuclear palsy (all in the nfvPPA group), 5 cases with Pick’s disease (4 in the nfvPPA group and 1 in the svPPA group), 2 cases with FTLD-TDP type A (all in the GRN-PPA group), 1 case with FTLD-TDP type B (in the svPPA group), 1 case with FTLD-TDP type C (in the svPPA group) and 1 case with an unclassifiable tauopathy (in the nfvPPA group)
  5. †Different between all PPA group and HC group (P<.05)
  6. ‡Different between lvPPA, nfvPPA, and PPA-GRN (P<.05, Bonferroni adjusted)
  7. §Different between svPPA and nfvPPA (P<.05, Bonferroni adjusted)