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Table 1 Characteristics of the Alzheimer's disease patients, healthy control subject’s as well as the conventional and digital control groups

From: Clinical impact of digital and conventional PET control databases for semi-quantitative analysis of brain 18F-FDG digital PET scans

Group

AD (n = 27)

HC (n = 22)

Conventional controls (n = 19)

Digital controls (n = 20)

p values

Age (years old)

70.9 ± 7.5

67.7 ± 10.4

67.2 ± 8.3

66.6 ± 8.5

0.27

Sex (Female)

14 (52%)

10 (45%)

8 (42%)

8 (40%)

0.86

Educational level

    

0.60

None

1

0

0

0

 

Primary school

11

9

14

12

 

High school

4

3

2

3

 

College

11

9

3

5

 

NA

1

 

MMSE

19.2 ± 5.7*

28.7 ± 0.9

29.2 ± 0.8

29 ± 0.9

 < 0.01*

  1. AD, Alzheimer’s disease; HC, healthy control; MMSE, mini-mental state examination score
  2. *p < 0.05 for comparisons between groups