Association between the APOE ε4 Allele and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in an Ecuadorian Mestizo Population

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics.

	LOAD cases	Controls
Gender, female (%)	30 (53.6)	31 (53.4)	1.00
Age ± SD, years	78.04 ± 6.32	76.62 ± 7.07	0.263
Smoking, yes (%)	18 (32.1)	13 (22.4)	0.309
Hypertension, yes (%)	27 (48.2)	33 (56.9)	0.459
Diabetes, yes (%)	8 (14.3)	7 (12.1)	0.942
MMSE ± SD, score	18.07 ± 5.24	28.28 ± 1.25	<0.001
Education ± SD, years	10.27 ± 4.83	10.38 ± 4.24	0.896

Corrected by Yates; NS: nonsignificant; significant; SD: standard deviation; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination.