Table 3.

Association between tertiles of the ‘whole food’ pattern and cognitive deficit

		Without adjustment for education						After adjustment for education
		T1a	T2a		T3a		p for trend	T1a	T2a		T3a		p for trend
		OR	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI		OR	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Memory	M1	1	0.79	0.65–0.97	0.67	0.54–0.84	0.002	1	0.87	0.71–1.07	0.78	0.62–0.98	0.09
	M2	1	0.85	0.69–1.05	0.74	0.59–0.93	0.03	1	0.93	0.75–1.15	0.85	0.68–1.08	0.42
Reasoning	M1	1	0.68	0.57–0.82	0.64	0.53–0.77	<10–4	1	0.81	0.67–0.98	0.85	0.70–1.05	0.08
	M2	1	0.73	0.61–0.88	0.69	0.57–0.84	0.0002	1	0.86	0.71–1.04	0.92	0.75–1.13	0.31
Vocabulary	M1	1	0.68	0.57–0.81	0.55	0.45–0.67	<10–4	1	0.84	0.70–1.02	0.78	0.63–0.96	0.04
	M2	1	0.68	0.56–0.81	0.54	0.44–0.66	<10–4	1	0.82	0.68–1.00	0.75	0.60–0.92	0.02
Phonemic fluency	M1	1	0.77	0.64–0.92	0.72	0.59–0.88	0.002	1	0.87	0.72–1.05	0.89	0.73–1.10	0.32
	M2	1	0.83	0.69–1.00	0.80	0.66–0.98	0.06	1	0.94	0.77–1.13	0.98	0.80–1.21	0.77
Semantic fluency	M1	1	0.66	0.56–0.79	0.57	0.47–0.68	<10–4	1	0.75	0.63–0.90	0.70	0.57–0.85	0.0004
	M2	1	0.69	0.58–0.82	0.59	0.50–0.72	<10–4	1	0.78	0.65–0.93	0.72	0.59–0.88	0.002

M1 = Adjusted for age, sex and energy intake; M2 = model 1 + adjusted for marital status, health behavior (smoking habits, physical activity) and health status (diabetes, hypertension, CHD, dyslipidemia, BMI and mental health); T = tertile.

^aTertiles 1, 2 and 3 represent individuals in the lowest, intermediate and highest thirds of the dietary factor score.