Research Article
Association between the APOE ε4 Allele and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in an Ecuadorian Mestizo Population
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics.
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| Controls
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| Gender, female (%) | 30 (53.6) | 31 (53.4) | 1.00 | Age ± SD, years | 78.04 ± 6.32 | 76.62 ± 7.07 | 0.263 | Smoking, yes (%) | 18 (32.1) | 13 (22.4) | 0.309 | Hypertension, yes (%) | 27 (48.2) | 33 (56.9) | 0.459 | Diabetes, yes (%) | 8 (14.3) | 7 (12.1) | 0.942 | MMSE ± SD, score | 18.07 ± 5.24 | 28.28 ± 1.25 | <0.001 | Education ± SD, years | 10.27 ± 4.83 | 10.38 ± 4.24 | 0.896 |
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Corrected by Yates; NS: nonsignificant; significant; SD: standard deviation; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination.
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