C-Reactive Protein and Cognition Are Unrelated to Leukoaraiosis

Table 1

Student’s 𝑡-test for numeric variables.

	Cognitive impairment (𝑛=34); Mean ± SD	Controls (𝑛=101); Mean ± SD	𝑃 value
Age	66.59±8.1	66.56±8.9	0.050
Years of schooling	2.06±1.3	2.39±1.2	0.047
GDS	4.68±3.4	3.87±3.1	0.034
Income	4.97±1.3	4.95±1.3	0.091
CRP (mg/L)	5.81±3.2	4.33±2.02	0.001
Leukoaraiosis score	0.88±0.69	0.89±0.88	0.003

GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale; CRP: C-reactive protein.