Correlation between Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Alzheimer Type Dementia and Plasma Homocysteine Concentration

Table 1

Mean (M) and standard deviations (SD) of several demographic and clinical features of the patient and control groups.

	BPSD	No BPSD	Control	𝑃 value
Sample size (𝑁)	40	37	39
Gender (M/F)	19/21	19/18	19/20
Age (years)	72.10±4.84	71.78±4.85	71.05±4.69	0.611
Education (years)	2.30±1.31	2.38±1.42	2.33±1.38	0.969
Duration of dementia (months)	21.58±7.45	20.92±7.77		0.706
MMSE	12.50±2.91^∗	12.59±2.77^∗	23.46±1.12	0.000*

∗Significant difference (𝑃<0.05).