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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Genomics. 2015 Jan 24;18(2):78–86. doi: 10.1159/000368888

Table 3.

Unadjusted and adjusted independent associations between participant characteristics and correct risk recall in bivariate and multivariate analyses

APOE genotype Number of APOE risk-increasing alleles Alzheimer's disease lifetime risk (± 5 percentage points) Alzheimer's disease lifetime risk (exact)
Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI) Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI) Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI) Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Unadjusted OR (95% CI)
Age 0.99 (0.97-1.01) 0.99 (0.98-1.02) 0.96 (0.93-0.99)* 0.97 (0.94-1.01) 0.96 (0.94-0.99)* 0.96 (0.93-1.00)* 0.98 (0.96-1.00)* 0.98 (0.96-1.00)*
Male (ref: female) 1.10 (0.62-1.96) 0.77 (0.40-1.49) 1.04 (0.53-2.04) 0.48 (0.19-1.19) 1.05 (0.53-2.08) 0.76 (0.34-1.68) 1.35 (0.82-2.23) 1.35 (0.82-2.23)
Years of education 1.16 (1.03-1.31)* 1.03 (0.90-1.19) 1.53 (1.30-1.80)** 1.39 (1.16-1.68)** 1.28 (1.10-1.48)* 1.17 (0.98-1.39) 1.01 (0.91-1.12) 1.01 (0.91-1.12)
African American or other (ref: European-American) 0.40 (0.20-0.81)* 0.55 (0.25-1.21) 0.33 (0.15-0.71)* 0.49 (0.18-1.31) 0.42 (0.19-0.92)* 0.39 (0.15-1.02) 1.06 (0.54-2.09) 1.06 (0.54-2.09)
Family history 1.29 (1.03-1.61)* 1.23 (0.98-1.54) 1.52 (1.13-2.04)* 1.44 (1.04-1.98)* 1.04 (0.82-1.31) 0.94 (0.75-1.18) 1.08 (0.92-1.27) 1.08 (0.92-1.27)
Higher numeracy (ref: lower numeracy) 2.10 (1.17-3.77)* 1.65 (0.83-3.30) 3.97 (1.96-8.08)** 2.79 (1.12-6.93)* 2.14 (1.06-4.35)* 1.20 (0.50-2.86) 1.50 (0.89-2.53) 1.50 (0.89-2.53)
Self-reported comfort with numbers 1.56 (1.16-2.09)* 1.37 (0.98-1.93) 2.18 (1.53-3.10)** 1.41 (0.92-2.16) 1.42 (1.01-2.00)* 1.08 (0.72-1.62) 1.22 (0.94-1.57) 1.22 (0.94-1.57)
*

p<0.05

**

p<0.001

Per one-unit increase