Table 3. Multivariate odds of past or current acetylcholinesterase inhibitor use among the 2,546 patients with Alzheimer disease^*.

Characteristic	Odds ratio	95% CI
African American	0.6	0.4–0.9
Latino	0.9	0.7–1.1
Asian	0.7	0.5–1.0
Other	0.5	0.3–0.9
White	1.0 (ref)
Age per 5 y	0.9	0.8–0.9
Education per 5 y	1.1	1.0–1.3
Female	0.9	0.7–1.1
Lives alone	0.8	0.6–1.1
Lives in a household	0.8	0.6–1.0
Lives in a health facility/group setting	1.00	0.7–1.4
Lives with Spouse	1.0 (ref)
Spouse caregiver	1.4	1.0–1.8
Child/other caregiver	1.0 (ref)
Medicare part A or B	1.4	1.1–1.8
MediCal	0.6	0.4–0.8
Other health insurance	1.3	1.1–1.6
No health insurance	0.5	0.3–1.0
Hypertension	1.3	1.1–1.5
Diabetes	1.0	0.8–1.4
MMSE score
<12	1.4	1.1–1.8
12–19	1.2	1.0–1.5
>19	1.0 (ref)
BRDRS score
>5.5	1.7	1.3–2.3
2.5–5.5	1.2	1.0–1.6
<2.5	1.0 (ref)

^*Data on covariates missing for 27 patients.

MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination; BRDRS = Blessed-Roth Dementia Rating Scale.