There were no significant differences between the svMCI and aMCI groups in terms of age, sex, years of education, APOE4 carrier, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, or cognitive profiles, including, MMSE scores, Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR), CDR sum of box, attention, language, visuospatial function, memory, and frontal/executive functions. Here, APOE is linked to hypertensive disorder.