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/m^2, )			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