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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Health Aging. 2009 Dec;13(10):899–905. doi: 10.1007/s12603-009-0249-9

Table 4.

Hazard ratios (95% CIs) for quintiles of food folate and vitamin B-6 intake over nine years of dementia or AD incidence

Quintiles of Food Folate Intake
1 2 3 4 5 p-trend
Dementia
 Model 1 Ref 0.73 (0.51, 1.04) 1.08 (0.79, 1.48) 1.04 (0.75, 1.42) 0.93 (0.67, 1.28) 0.68
 Model 2 Ref 0.71 (0.50, 1.01) 1.07 (0.78, 1.47) 1.01 (0.73, 1.38) 0.89 (0.64, 1.24) 0.84
 Model 3 Ref 0.63 (0.40, 1.01) 0.97 (0.64, 1.47) 0.99 (0.64, 1.51) 0.86 (0.55, 1.35) 0.82
AD
 Model 1 Ref 0.86 (0.57, 1.32) 0.72 (0.46, 1.13) 1.03 (0.69, 1.55) 0.99 (0.66, 1.49) 0.23
 Model 2 Ref 0.80 (0.50, 1.27) 1.15 (0.75, 1.75) 1.07 (0.69,1.64) 1.04 (0.68, 1.60) 0.47
 Model 3 Ref 0.76 (0.46, 1.27) 1.10 (0.69, 1.75) 1.16 (0.72, 1.86) 1.02 (0.62, 1.67) 0.43
Quintiles of Food B-12 Intake
1 2 3 4 5 p-trend
Dementia
 Model 1 Ref 1.07 (0.77, 1.48) 0.95 (0.67, 1.34) 1.33 (0.96, 1.83) 1.00 (0.72, 1.38) 0.58
 Model 2 Ref 1.11 (0.80, 1.54) 0.94 (0.67, 1.34) 1.36 (0.99, 1.87) 1.01 (0.73, 1.40) 0.58
 Model 3 Ref 1.13 (0.73, 1.75) 0.84 (0.52, 1.36) 1.30 (0.84, 2.01) 0.90 (0.60, 1.37) 0.79
AD
 Model 1 Ref 0.95 (0.61, 1.46) 0.72 (0.45, 1.16) 1.36 (0.91, 2.04) 1.09 (0.73, 1.63) 0.26
 Model 2 Ref 1.10 (0.65, 1.55) 0.72 (0.45, 1.16) 1.37 (0.92, 2.06) 1.09 (0.73, 1.63) 0.31
 Model 3 Ref 1.08 (0.67, 1.76) 0.83 (0.49, 1.40) 1.46 (0.91, 2.33) 0.95 (0.61, 1.49) 0.81
Quintiles of Food B-6 Intake
1 2 3 4 5 p-trend
Dementia
 Model 1 Ref 0.94 (0.67, 1.31) 0.99 (0.72, 1.36) 0.93 (0.68, 1.29) 0.92 (0.67, 1.27) 0.64
 Model 2 Ref 0.91 (0.65, 1.28) 0.97 (0.70, 1.33) 0.93 (0.67, 1.28) 0.89 (0.64, 1.22) 0.52
 Model 3 Ref 0.79 (0.50, 1.24) 1.06 (0.70, 1.61) 0.82 (0.53, 1.28) 0.80 (0.51, 1.23) 0.41
AD
 Model 1 Ref 0.78 (0.49, 1.24) 0.93 (0.61, 1.41) 0.90 (0.59, 1.37) 1.07 (0.73, 1.58) 0.60
 Model 2 Ref 0.73 (0.46, 1.16) 0.88 (0.58, 1.34) 0.85 (0.56, 1.60) 0.96 (0.65, 1.43) 0.93
 Model 3 Ref 0.78 (0.47, 1.28) 1.06 (0.67, 1.68) 0.91 (0.57, 1.45) 0.84 (0.53, 1.35) 0.70

Model 1- unadjusted; Model 2- adjusted for gender, education; Model 3- fully adjusted for gender, education, bmi (cont), total kcals (cont), physical activity, apoe, alcohol, smoking, MI, stroke, DM, and the other B-vitamins in quartiles treated as a continuous variables (17 = df).