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Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014 Aug 12;62(9):1786–1791. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12978

Table 2.

General linear mixed models estimates for total MMSE, memory domain, and non-memory domain scores as a function of PASE quartiles over 14-year period in older Mexican Americans (N= 1,669).

	Total MMSE		Memory domain		Non-memory domain

Predictor variables	Model 1 β (SE)	Model 2 β (SE)	Model 1 β (SE)	Model 2 β (SE)	Model 1 β (SE)	Model 2 β (SE)
Intercept	28.60 (1.04) ^*	28.43 (1.05) ^*	6.77 (0.27)^*	6.72 (0.27)^*	22.48 (1.00)^*	22.86 (1.00)^*
Time	−0.33 (0.04) ^*	−0.38 (0.05) ^*	−0.08 (0.01)^*	−0.07 (0.01)^*	−0.47 (0.05)^*	−0.29 (0.04) ^*
PASE quartiles
Q I	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Q II	0.47 (0.21) ^‡	0.51 (0.22) ^‡	0.02 (0.06)	0.01 (0.06)	0.39 (0.20)	0.30 (0.21)
Q III	0.95 (0.21) ^*	1.00 (0.22) ^*	0.05 (0.06)	0.05 (0.06)	0.85 (0.20)^*	0.76 (0.21) ^†
Q IV	1.10 (0.22) ^*	1.14 (0.22) ^*	0.13 (0.06)^‡	0.12 (0.06)^‡	0.96 (0.21)^*	0.90 (0.21)^*
PASE x time
Q I x time	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Q II x time	0.03 (0.05)	0.03 (0.05)	0.01 (0.01)	0.006 (0.01)	0.08 (0.05)	0.03 (0.04)
Q III x time	0.11 (0.05) ^‡	0.11 (0.05) ^‡	0.03 (0.01)^‡	0.03 (0.01)^‡	0.12 (0.05) ^‡	0.04 (0.04)
Q IV x time	0.10 (0.05) ^‡	0.08 (0.05)	0.01 (0.01)	0.008 (0.01)	0.10 (0.05) ^‡	0.04 (0.04)

PASE = Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly

< 0.0001,

^†

<0.001,

^‡

<0.01

QI = (PASE: 0 to < 33.6); QII = (PASE: 33.6 to < 85.0); QIII = (PASE: 85.0 to < 132.4); QIV = (PASE: ≥ 132.4)

Model 1 included time, age, gender, education, and marital status.

Model 2 included hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, high depressive symptoms and variables in Model 1.