Table 3.

Association between participant’s spouse’s MCI/dementia status and participant’s incident dementia: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort, 2011–2019 (n=1,845)

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI
Participant’s Spouse’s
Cognitive Status
Normal	1 (Ref)		1 (Ref)		1 (Ref)
MCI/Dementia	0.97	(0.69, 1.38)	0.90	(0.63, 1.28)	0.92	(0.64, 1.31)

Note: All models adjust for age, field site, and sex. Model 2 adjusts for educational attainment. Model 3 adjusts for educational attainment, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, and total cholesterol. All models adjust standard errors for clustering within spouse pairs.

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001