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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2015 Jul-Aug;77(6):653–663. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000208

Table 3.

Relation of glycemia and diabetes status with performance in executive abilities. Diabetes status was defined as normal glucose tolerance (NGT), pre-diabetes, and diabetes.

Model 1: Adjusted for age and gender Model 2: also adjusted for education and Dominican origin. Model 3: also adjusted for BMI, HDL cholesterol, Systolic BP, and hsCRP
Estimate p-value Estimate p-value Estimate p-value
Color trails 1
HbA1c (n=600) −1.17 .15 −1.11 .17 −1.12 .64
HbA1c (n=520)* −0.82 .44 −0.99 .35 −0.75 .55
NGT 0 - 0 - 0 -
Pre-diabetes −4.58 .043 −4.01 .073 −4.27 .084
Diabetes −2.98 .20 −2.07 .38 −1.46 .58
Color trails 2
HbA1c (n=600) −1.05 .25 −1.01 .27 −0.80 .43
HbA1c (n=520)* −1.45 .23 −1.68 .17 −1.15 .43
NGT 0 - 0 - 0 -
Pre-diabetes −6.20 .011 −5.53 .034 −6.45 .022
Diabetes −4.55 .083 −3.68 .17 −2.97 .31
Verbal fluency
HbA1c (n=600) −0.85 .010 −0.58 .07 −0.58 .12
HbA1c (n=520)* −1.10 .007 −0.79 .050 −0.77 .11
NGT 0 - 0 - 0 -
Pre-diabetes −1.55 .11 −0.90 0.34 −0.62 .54
Diabetes −2.58 .012 −1.62 .091 −1.32 .22

Generalized Linear Models were used to compare the pre-diabetes and diabetes groups to the NGT

*

denotes exclusion of 80 persons with diabetes who reported diabetes treatment.