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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2021;84(4):1563–1576. doi: 10.3233/JAD-215020

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Variable White
(n = 162)
African American
(n = 65)
Hispanic
(n = 147)
ANOVA
p
Post-hoc comparison p
W versus AA W versus H H versus AA
Age, y 69.0 (9.4) 69.3 (11.2) 68.7 (9.5) 0.903 0.983 0.944 0.908
Education, y 16.4 (2.6) 13.9 (3.2) 11.8 (4.5) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Sex, % Female 51.2 73.8 77.6 <0.001 0.003 <0.001 0.600
Hollingshead 26.5 (12.6) 38.3 (16.0) 47.9 (19.3) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Total medical history 6.2 (2.9) 5.7 (3.3) 4.9 (2.9) 0.001 0.423 <0.001 0.226
Self-rated physical health 2.0 (0.7) 2.1 (0.7) 2.3 (0.8) <0.001 0.300 <0.001 0.170
Self-rated mental health 1.9 (0.7) 2.0 (0.7) 2.2 (0.7) 0.004 0.737 0.003 0.172
mPPT 12.5 (2.4) 10.4 (3.8) 12.1 (2.4) <0.001 <0.001 0.560 <0.001
mCAIDE 6.6 (4.1) 7.8 (3.7) 7.9 (3.7) 0.007 0.062 0.012 0.999
MoCA 24.6 (4.3) 21.4 (6.1) 21.4 (5.2) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 0.992
AD8 1.5 (1.8) 1.7 (2.0) 2.2 (2.1) 0.011 0.876 0.010 0.181
HADS-Anxiety 4.9 (3.4) 5.2 (3.2) 5.8 (4.0) 0.083 0.788 0.067 0.517
HADS-Depression 4.8 (3.8) 5.1 (3.4) 7.4 (5.4) <0.001 0.860 <0.001 0.001

Mean (SD) or %, W, White; AA, African American; H, Hispanic.

One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post-hoc Tukey honestly significant tests were used to analyze continuous variables. Chi-square tests with post-hoc Benjamini-Hochberg correction were used for categorical variables.

Bold indicates significant p-values.

SES, socioeconomic status; mPPT, mini-Physical Performance Test; mCAIDE, modified Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging, and Incidence of Dementia; HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment.