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Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Serum and cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acid protein levels in early and advanced stages of cerebral amyloid Angiopathy

 

Presymptomatic D-CAA

n = 28

Symptomatic D-CAA

n = 29

Sporadic CAA

n = 59

Controls < 55y

n = 33

Controls ≥ 55y

n = 38

Age, y, mean (range)

40.4 (27–55)

58.1 (43–74)

71.7 (57–86)

42.4 (27–54)

64.8 (55–85)

Women, n (%)

18 (64.3)

14 (48.3)

25 (42.4)

16 (48.5)

14 (36.8)

Education > 12y, n (%)

19 (67.9)

12 (41.4)

37 (62.7)a

-

-

Previous symptomatic ICH, n (%)

-

29 (100)

30 (50.8)

-

-

Time between ICH and blood/CSF withdrawal in months, median (range)

-

22 (2–85)

14 (2–87)

-

-

Cognitive testing performed, n (%)

28 (100)

29 (100)

51 (86.4)

-

-

MoCA, median (range)

28 (24-30)

27 (15-30)

25.5 (8-30)b

-

-

MRI data available, n (%)

25 (89.3)

27 (93.1)

55 (93.2)

-

-

Macrobleed count, median (range)

0 (0–0)

4 (1-26)

0 (0–13)

-

-

CAA CSVD score, median (range)

1 (0–4)

4 (3-60

4 (0–6)

-

-

CSF Aβ40 (pg/mL), median (range)c

2184 (832–3752)

1733.5 (910–2702)

6125 (1642–12,029)

7551.5 (2889–14,874)

9036 (3905–16,305)

CSF Aβ42 (pg/mL), median (range)d

102 (41–184)

76 (41–106)

312.5 (72–1088)

629 (233–1578)

681 (326–1265)

CSF p-tau (pg/mL), median (range)e

-

-

45.2 (24.5–207.1)

22.9 (11–49)

33.8 (18–94.7)

  1. Abbreviations: Aβ = β-amyloid, CAA Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, CSF Cerebrospinal fluid, CSVD Cerebral small vessel disease, D-CAA Dutch cerebral amyloid angiopathy, GFAP Glial fibrillary acidic protein, ICH Intracerebral hemorrhage, MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, NFL Neurofilament light, p-tau phosphorylate tau, y years
  2. a Missing data in 4 participants, b missing data in 8 participants
  3. c, d Presymptomatic participants with D-CAA n = 11, symptomatic participants with D-CAA n = 12, sCAA participants n = 28, controls < 55 n = 32, controls ≥ 55 n = 21
  4. e sCAA participants = 19, controls < 55 n = 31, controls ≥ 55 n = 21