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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2021;81(3):943–948. doi: 10.3233/JAD-201613

Table 2.

Hazard Ratio of APOE Genotype from Cox Proportional Hazards Model

AD Cohort (N = 2,007)
MCI Cohort (N = 1,480)
Unadjusted Model
Adjusted Model*
Unadjusted Model
Adjusted Model*
HR (95% CI) p HR (95% CI) p HR (95% CI) p HR (95% CI) p
ε2/ε3 (Reference group)
ε2 (ε2/ε2 & ε2/ε3) 0.66 (0.40, 1.09) 0.103 0.75 (0.45, 1.24) 0.262 0.90 (0.65, 1.24) 0.529 0.88 (0.63, 1.21) 0.427
ε4 (ε3/ε4 & ε4/ε4) 1.99 (1.50, 2.66) < 0.0001 2.04 (1.52, 2.73) < 0.0001 1.38 (1.09, 1.75) 0.009 1.40 (1.10, 1.78) 0.006
ε2/ε4 0.74 (0.34, 1.61) 0.453 0.85 (0.39, 1.84) 0.679 0.92 (0.54, 1.57) 0.763 0.88 (0.51, 1.50) 0.637
ε2/ε4 compared to other genotypes as reference group
ε2/ε4 versus ε2 1.13 (0.47, 2.68) 0.787 1.13 (0.47, 2.70) 0.78 1.02 (0.57, 1.82) 0.94 1.00 (0.56, 1.79) 0.991
ε2/ε4 versus ε4 0.37 (0.17, 0.80) 0.011 0.42 (0.19, 0.90) 0.026 0.67 (0.39, 1.14) 0.141 0.63 (0.37, 1.08) 0.091
*

Models were adjusted for age, sex, education, baseline cognitive status, and year of initial visit.