Protein Markers for the Differential Diagnosis of Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

Table 1

Clinical Characteristics; values are means (SD).

Group (no. samples)	Gender M/F	MMSE	Age years	CSF Aβ1-42 pg/mL	CSF total Tau pg/mL	CSF phosphorylated Tau pg/mL	CSF/serum albumin ratio	CSF/serum folate ratio	Total protein g/L
28 probable AD	10/18	20.0 (3.7)	74.6 (11.4)	465 (146)	682 (316)	91 (36)	5.9 (1.7)	2.5 (0.9)	0.38 (0.11)
21 VaD	13/8	21.5 (2.6)	76.2 (8.4)	634 (169)	389 (185)	59 (24)	10.4 (5.5)	1.8 (1.2)	0.62 (0.33)
Mann-Whitney 𝑃 value		n.s.	n.s.	0.011	0.0007	0.0021	0.0005	0.0348	0.002