The Impact of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Various Neurodegenerative Dementia Syndromes: A Neuropathological Study

Table 1

Average age (standard deviation), gender distribution and % frequency of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) according to the grading of its severity in different neurodegenerative dementia diseases.

Items	Age	Gender	CAA
	(years)	(% male)	(%)
Alzheimer’s disease (n = 92)
CAA
grade 0	76 (11)	58%	33%
grade 1	76 (10)	56%	19%
grade 2	74 (10)	50%	15%
grade 3	78 (9)	41%	33%
Lewy body disease (n = 21)
CAA
grade 0	81 (7)	67%	55%
grade 1	76 (10)	60%	24%
grade 2	82 (9)	62%	8%
grade 3	82 (9)	67%	13%
Progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 24)
CAA
grade 0	74 (9)	40%	79%
grade 1	75 (10)	75%	7%
grade 2	83 (10)	75%	14%
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (n = 46)
CAA grade 0	67 (11)	53%	100%
Corticobasal degeneration (n = 5)
CAA grade 0	73 (5)	40%	100%
Normal controls (n = 20)
CAA grade 0	66 (12)	58%	100%