Table 2.

The association between cognition and incident coronary heart disease (CHD).

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
	HR (95% CI)	HR (95% CI)	HR (95% CI)	HR (95% CI)
“General” factor	1.17 (1.01–1.37)*	1.27 (1.06–1.53)*	1.22 (1.01–1.46)*	1.10 (0.95–1.27)
Memory	1.00 (0.86–1.16)	1.00 (0.86–1.17)	0.98 (0.83–1.14)	0.97 (0.83–1.13)
AH4-I (reasoning)	1.24 (1.07–1.44)*	1.36 (1.14–1.62)*	1.32 (1.11–1.57)*	1.26 (1.06–1.52)*
Mill Hill (vocabulary)	1.21 (1.05–1.39)*	1.32 (1.12–1.55)*	1.29 (1.09–1.52)*	1.24 (1.04–1.47)*
Phonemic fluency	1.10 (0.94–1.29)	1.12 (0.95–1.32)	1.09 (0.93–1.28)	1.06 (0.90–1.24)
Semantic fluency	1.04 (0.89–1.21)	1.05 (0.89–1.24)	1.02 (0.86–1.20)	0.98 (0.83–1.16)

^*p<0.05

Model 1: adjusted for age and sex.

Model 2: model 1 + employment grade, education and marital status.

Model 3: model 2 + diabetes, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, medication for cardiovascular disease.

Model 4: model 3 + smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, hours of moderate and vigorous physical activity.