Research Article
Elderly Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Exhibit Altered Gut Microbiota Profiles
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of study subjects.
| | MCI case () | Control () | value |
| Age (yrs, ) | | | 0.046 | Sex (female/male) | 14/8 | 19/7 | 0.543 | BMI (kg/m2, ) | | | 0.194 | Education | | | 0.87 | Illiteracy | 5 | 7 | | Elementary school | 11 | 11 | | High school | 6 | 8 | | MMSE score () | | | | Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D, ) | | | 0.424 | Index for Activities of Daily Living (ADL, ) | | | 0.01 | Major preexisting conditions | | | | Cerebrovascular diseases | 9 | 9 | 0.654 | Cardiopathy | 5 | 4 | 0.781 | Hypertension | 2 | 5 | 0.561 | Diabetes | 3 | 1 | 0.485 | Respiratory tract diseases | 6 | 5 | 0.509 | Genital diseases | 7 | 10 | 0.632 | Physiological data | | | | Blood glucose (mmol/L) | 5.50 | 4.82 | 0.078 | TAG (mmol/L) | 1.93 | 1.59 | 0.362 | TC (mmol/L) | 4.63 | 4.59 | 0.903 | HDL-cholesterol (mmol/L) | 1.21 | 1.08 | 0.379 | LDL-cholesterol (mmol/L) | 2.25 | 2.34 | 0.693 |
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