Table 3.

Relationship between metabolic syndrome and cognition: multivariate regression analysis

	Model 1*
	Total sample (n = 819)†			Men (n = 363)			Women (n = 456)
	β	P	95% CI	β	P	95% CI	β	P	95% CI
Memory	−0.14	0.034	−0.27 to −0.01	−0.27	0.013	−0.49 to −0.05	−0.06	0.444	−0.22 to 0.09
Psychomotor skills	−0.03	0.593	−0.14 to 0.08	−0.09	0.280	−0.26 to 0.07	0.03	0.670	−0.11 to 0.17
Executive functions	−0.58	0.010	−1.02 to −0.14	−0.80	0.033	−1.54 to −0.06	−0.39	0.162	−0.94 to 0.15

	Model 2*
	Total sample (n = 819)†			Men (n = 363)			Women (n = 456)
	β	P	95% CI	β	P	95% CI	β	P	95% CI
Memory	−0.12	0.090	−0.27 to 0.02	−0.25	0.050	−0.51 to 0.00	−0.04	0.645	−0.23 to 0.14
Psychomotor skills	−0.006	0.920	−0.13 to 0.11	0.02	0.842	−0.18 to 0.22	−0.003	0.961	−0.16 to 0.15
Executive functions	−0.65	0.010	−1.14 to −0.15	−0.94	0.023	−1.74 to −0.13	−0.44	0.165	−1.07 to 0.18

*Model 1: adjusted for age, years of education, depressive mood, coronary heart disease, and physical activity at leisure time. Model 2: model 1 plus adjustment for WML volume, presence of lacunes, silent infarcts, and brain parenchymal fraction.

†Total sample: additionally adjusted for sex.