Characterizing Acupuncture De Qi in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Relations with Small-World Efficiency of Functional Brain Networks

Table 1

Subject characteristics.

	Patients	Controls
𝑁	12	12
Age (mean ± SD)	59.3 ± 3.3	60.6 ± 5.8
Sex (M/F)	1/11	4/8
Education (year)	2.3 ± 0.4	2.4 ± 0.5
MMSE score*	26.4 ± 0.9	29.8 ± 0.4
CDR	0.5	0

Education level was determined on a discrete scale with 3 levels: low = 1, middle = 2, and high = 3. Data are presented as mean ± SD. MMSE: mini-mental state examination. CDR: clinical dementia rating. *Statistically significant difference at the 𝑃<0.0001 level.