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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Nov 18;12(4):419–426. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.10.007

Table 2.

Section 2: Factors associated with risk for possible or probable AD considering all data (left columns) and considering only data collected at research clinic study visits (right columns), along with bootstrap results (far right column)*

All data Clinic-only data Bootstrap
results
Hazard ratio p value Hazard ratio p value p value
Sex
  Male 1 Reference 1 Reference
  Female 1.07 0.52 1.16 0.46 0.50

Age 1.12 <0.001 1.14 <0.001 0.040

Education Omnibus: p<0.001 Omnibus: p=0.32
  ≤12 years 1 Reference 1 Reference
  13–16 years 0.79 0.015 0.84 0.38 0.61
  17+ years 0.57 <0.001 0.64 0.15 0.44

Race
  Other 1 Reference 1 Reference
  White 0.83 0.26 1.00 0.99 0.35

Medical conditions
  Diabetes 1.16 0.40 1.76 0.09 0.039
  Hypertension 0.85 0.13 0.90 0.63   0.62
  Heart 1.03 0.81 1.36 0.24 0.09
  Cerebrovascular disease 1.29 0.13 2.42 0.002 0.006

APOE genotype
  0 ε4 alleles 1 Reference 1 Reference
  1 or more ε4 alleles 1.66 <0.001 2.28 <0.001 0.008

Comorbidity Omnibus: p=0.39 Omnibus: p=0.55
  RxRisk = 1 1 Reference 1 Reference
  RxRisk = 2 0.92 0.54 0.99 0.96 0.66
  RxRisk = 3 0.96 0.78 0.69 0.20 0.034
  RxRisk = 4 1.18 0.26 0.81 0.54 0.044
*

Bootstrap results give the probability that hazard ratios this different would be observed by chance alone. Each bootstrap sample is generated by randomly drawing individuals from the “all data” dataset with replacement until the same sample size as the “clinic only” dataset is reached. We then ran the same Cox model with that sample and kept track of its hazard ratio. We repeated this procedure 10,000 times, and ranked the hazard ratios. We compared the observed hazard ratio for the “clinic only” dataset to the bootstrapped hazard ratios to obtain the bootstrapped p values.