Table 4.

Association between tertiles of the ‘processed 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	1.17	0.94–1.46	1.40	1.06–1.85	0.06	1	1.06	0.85–1.32	1.15	0.87–1.55	0.61
	M2	1	1.13	0.91–1.41	1.26	0.95–1.67	0.26	1	1.03	0.83–1.29	1.06	0.79–1.41	0.92
Reasoning	M1	1	1.37	1.13–1.66	1.68	1.31–2.14	<10–4	1	1.14	0.93–1.39	1.15	0.89–1.49	0.43
	M2	1	1.34	1.10–1.62	1.55	1.21–1.98	0.001	1	1.12	0.91–1.37	1.09	0.84–1.42	0.55
Vocabulary	M1	1	1.62	1.33–1.96	2.45	1.92–3.14	<10–4	1	1.33	1.08–1.63	1.63	1.25–2.13	0.001
	M2	1	1.58	1.30–1.92	2.36	1.84–3.04	<10–4	1	1.31	1.07–1.62	1.63	1.25–2.13	0.001
Phonemic fluency	M1	1	1.26	1.04–1.53	1.83	1.43–2.35	<10–4	1	1.10	0.90–1.34	1.42	1.10–1.83	0.02
	M2	1	1.23	1.01–1.49	1.70	1.33–2.19	10–4	1	1.07	0.88–1.32	1.34	1.04–1.74	0.06
Semantic fluency	M1	1	1.21	1.00–1.45	1.68	1.33–2.12	<10–4	1	1.04	0.86–1.26	1.28	1.00–1.63	0.10
	M2	1	1.17	0.97–1.42	1.58	1.25–2.01	0.0005	1	1.02	0.84–1.24	1.23	0.96–1.57	0.17

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.