Table 2.

Estimates of the associations between Younger (age 18 – 30)/Older (age + 65, cognitively healthy and impaired) people and cognitive performance (MoCa, ZVT, and SPM)

	MoCa		TMT		SPM
	β (95% Conf. Int)	p	β (95% Conf. Int)	p	β (95% Conf. Int)	p
Older (Ref: Younger)	1.38 (0.59 – 2.18)	0.001	-0.26 (-1.7 – 1.17)	0.723	1.9 (0.84 – 2.95)	0.001
Male (Ref: Female)	-0.08 (-0.26 – 0.10)	0.387	0.17 (-0.15 – 0.50)	0.296	0.03 (-0.21 – 0.27)	0.818
Education 12 + years (Ref: < 12 years)	0.68 (0.32 – 1.04)	0.000	0.14 (-0.67 – 0.69)	0.966	0.60 (0.13 – 1.08)	0.014
Living in partnership (Ref: solitarily)	-0.04 (-0.25 – 0.17)	0.720	0.06 (-0.33 – 0.45)	0.749	-0.05 (-0.33 – 0.24)	0.747
Chronic diseases (Ref: None)
One chronic disease	0.13 (-0.08 – 0.35)	0.222	-0.08 (-0.46 – 0.30)	0.681	0.14 (-0.15 – 0.43)	0.337
≥ 2 chronic diseases	-0.31 (-0.61– -0.02)	0.037	-0.51 (-1.04 – 0.01)	0.054	0.18 (-0.21 – 0.56)	0.371
Age groups	-0.32 (-0.47 – -0.17)	< 0.001	0.13 (-0.14 – 0.40)	0.341	-0.51 (-0.71 – -0.32)	< 0.001

MoCa Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Ref reference category, TMT Trail Making Test, SPM Standard Progressive Matrices Test, β (95% Conf. Int) β with 95% Confidence Interval, p p– value