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Table 1 Characteristics of the enrolled subjects

From: The sniffing bead system, an olfactory dysfunction screening tool for geriatric subjects: a cross-sectional study

Variables

Number

Number

137

Sex

 Male: female

28:109

Age (years)

 Mean ± SD

71.60 ± 7.56

 Range

58–92

Smoking

 Non-smoker, n (%)

134 (98.5%)

 Smoker, n (%)

3 (1.5%)

Number of subjects with AD (%)

38 (28.1%)

Number of subjects with VD (%)

7 (5.2%)

MMSE-K

22.08 ± 6.56

CERAD-K

60.05 ± 22.72

YSK_threshold

2.41 ± 1.79

YSK_discrimination

6.11 ± 2.07

YSK_identification

8.93 ± 3.25

YSK_TDI

17.46 ± 5.49

Mean score of PEA sniffing bead system

2.58 ± 1.52

Mean score of n-butanol sniffing bead system

3.07 ± 1.50

  1. AD Alzheimer’s disease, CERAD-K Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease-Korean version, MMSE-K Mini-Mental State Examination-Korean version, PEA 2-phenylethyl alcohol, SD Standard deviation, VD Vascular dementia, YSK_TDI YSK_threshold-discrimination-identification