Urine D-ribose levels correlate with cognitive function in community-dwelling older adults

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Correlations between urine D-ribose, demographics, and cognitive scores

	D-ribose	Age	Education	MMSE^a	PALT^a	Digit Span Backward^a	Verbal Fluency^a	Digit Symbol^a	AD8	CES-D
D-ribose	1.00	-0.12^**	-0.04	-0.08^**	-0.02	-0.03	-0.10^***	-0.03	-0.02	-0.10^***
Age		1.00	-0.02	-0.12^***	-0.18^***	-0.14^***	-0.14^***	-0.32^***	0.15^***	0.13^***
Education			1.00	0.33^***	0.20^***	0.31^***	0.39^***	0.42^***	-0.15^***	0.01
MMSE^a				1.00	0.40^***	0.41^***	0.40^***	0.38^***	-0.16^***	-0.09^***
PALT^a					1.00	0.36^***	0.35^***	0.33^***	-0.06^**	-0.17^***
Digit Span Backward^a							0.37^***	0.39^***	-0.10^***	-0.06^**
Verbal Fluency^a							1.00	0.52^***	-0.13^***	-0.08^***
Digit Symbol^a								1.00	-0.15^***	-0.06
AD8									1.00	0.36^***
CES-D										1.00

MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, PALT Paired Associative Learning Test, CES-D Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale
^aThe significance level was set at 0.01
^**p < 0.01
^***p < 0.001

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