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Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2015 Jul-Aug;77(6):688–696. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000125

Table 3.

Predictive Validity of Post-Surgery CRP Changes on Cognitive Function

	Attention/Executive Function			Memory			Language
	β	SE b	p	β	SE b	p	β	SE b	p
Block 1
Age	0.30	0.07	0.73	−0.15	0.09	0.17	−0.09	0.08	0.32
Sex	0.10	1.83	0.25	0.04	2.39	0.71	−0.01	2.05	0.95
BMI Change	−0.04	0.16	0.65	−0.08	0.21	0.47	0.03	0.19	0.70
Baseline CRP	0.00	0.93	0.99	0.00	1.19	0.99	0.02	1.05	0.82
Baseline Cognition^†	0.72	0.08	<0.001^*	0.44	0.11	<0.001^*	0.76	0.08	<0.001^*
R²		0.55			0.26			0.56
F		17.18			5.11			18.28
p-value		<0.001^*			<0.001^*			<0.001^*
Block 2
Follow-up CRP	0.11	2.76	0.31	0.11	3.60	0.42	0.02	3.14	0.84
R²		0.55			0.27			0.56
F for ΔR²		1.07			0.66			0.04
p-value		0.31			0.42			0.84

Note.

^†

Each 1-year follow-up cognitive function variable was adjusted for its corresponding baseline cognitive function variable. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine whether post-bariatric surgery changes in CRP predicted cognitive test performance at the one-year follow-up.

p< 0.01