TABLE 5.
Psychiatric Comorbidities for Participants at First Cognitive Impairment Versus Those Without Impairment at Last Neuropsychiatric Evaluation
| Cognitive Status, N (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comorbidity (Number Missing) | Probable Dementia or MCI, N = 320 |
χ2, N = 201 | χ2 Value | Degrees of Freedom |
p |
| GDS | |||||
| Cutpoint = 5 | 51 (16) | 16 (8) | 7.01 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Cutpoint =10 | 16 (5) | 3 (1) | 4.32 | 1 | 0.04 |
| Any depressive-anxiety-alcohol disordera (16) | 71 (23) | 23 (12) | 9.75 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Major depression | 64 (20) | 21 (10) | 8.25 | 1 | <0.01 |
| General anxiety/panic (2) | 24 (8) | 7 (3) | 3.62 | 1 | 0.06 |
| General anxiety (1) | 17 (5) | 6 (3) | 1.60 | 1 | 0.21 |
| Panic (1) | 11 (3) | 2 (1) | 3.04 | 1 | 0.09 |
| Alcohol abuse (15) | 5 (2) | 2 (1) | Fisher’s Exact | — | 0.72 |
a
Any Depressive-Anxiety-Alcohol Disorder includes major depression, general anxiety, panic, or alcohol abuse.