Processing speed predicts SuperAging years later

BMC Psychology

Table 1 Demographic data and performance in the follow-up (2018)—comparison of SA versus nonSA

Follow-up characteristic	SA (n = 19)		NonSA (n = 77)		Cohen’s d	p
Follow-up characteristic	M (SD)	Min–Max	M (SD)	Min–Max	Cohen’s d	p
Age in years	84.68 (5.06)	80–98	86.73 (5.01)	80–101	0.41	0.115
Education in years	13.11 (3.07)	9–19	13.70 (4.11)	6–28	0.15	0.560
MMSE	28.16 (1.54)	25–30	26.75 (1.99)	23–30	0.74	0.005
PVLT-DR	10.32 (1.16)	9–12	6.42 (2.80)	0–11	1.52	< 0.001
BNT-30	27.90 (1.66)	25–30	24.90 (4.67)	8–30	0.70	< 0.001
TMT-B	125.10 (59.06)	45–241	177.27 (126.26)	64–912	0.45	0.083
CF-animals	23.10 (6.53)	12–39	17.79 (5.72)	8–36	0.90	0.001

SA SuperAgers, nonSA non-SuperAgers, MMSE Mini-mental state examination, PVLT-DR Philadelphia verbal learning test—delayed recall, BNT-30 Boston Naming Test-30, TMT-B Trail making test—part B, CF-Animals Category verbal fluency (Animals)
p-values of all comparisons (SA vs. nonSA) reaching statistical significance (p < 0.05) are written in bold

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