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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 7.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2009 Jul;169(14):1317–1324. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.229

Table 2.

Base-line anticholinergic use and cognitive decline over the 4-year follow-up period

Model 0
Model 1
Model 2
OR [CI95] p-value OR [CI95] p-value OR [CI95] p-value
WOMEN (n=4128*)
Δ Isaacs total ≤−6 1.47 [1.16–1.86] 0.002 1.44 [1.13–1.83] 0.003 1.41 [1.11–1.79] 0.006
ΔBenton ≤ −2 1.13 [0.89–1.43] 0.33
ΔTMT A ≥ 16 1.05 [0.78–1.42] 0.73
ΔTMT B ≥ 35 0.98 [0.73–1.31] 0.88
ΔMMSE ≤ −2 1.26 [1.00–1.60] 0.05 1.25 [0.99–1.58] 0.07 1.22 [0.96–1.55] 0.10
MEN (n=2784*)
ΔIsaacs30 ≤ −6 1.03 [0.67–1.59] 0.89
ΔBenton ≤ −2 1.70 [1.13–2.56] 0.01 1.68 [1.11–2.53] 0.01 1.63 [1.08–2.47] 0.02
ΔTMT A ≥ 16 0.84 [0.48–1.46] 0.53
ΔTMT B ≥ 35 1.61 [0.98–2.64] 0.06 1.58 [0.96–2.62] 0.07 1.47 [0.89–2.44] 0.14
ΔMMSE ≤ −2 1.39 [0.92–2.09] 0.12
*

Except for TMT which concerned 3447 women and 2269 men

Model 0: adjusted for centre, age, education, and baseline cognitive performance.

Model 1: adjusted for centre, age, education, base-line cognitive performance, BMI, alcohol, tobacco and caffeine intake, mobility, hypercholesterolemia, ApoE, diabetes, asthma, (for men and women) as well as HRT for women.

Model 2: adjusted for all the covariates in model 1, plus depression, ischemic pathologies, Parkinson’s disease and hypertension (for men and women)