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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Neurol. 2016 Sep 1;73(9):1062–1069. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.1948

Table 4.

Adjusted associations between traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness at any age and neuropathological findings from analysis of pooled data from all three studies*

Outcome TBI with LOC < 1 hr
(n=176)
TBI with LOC ≥1 hr
(n=37)
RR (95% CI) P
value
RR (95% CI) P
value
Braak Stage 5 or 6 1.02 (0.79, 1.33) 0.88 0.98 (0.58, 1.65) 0.93
CERAD intermediate or
  frequent
1.01 (0.89, 1.15) 0.88 1.00 (0.79, 1.27) 0.98
Amyloid angiopathy 1.08 (0.99, 1.19) 0.09 1.09 (0.93. 1.27) 0.28
Cystic infarcts 0.90 (0.73, 1.12) 0.35 1.17 (0.84, 1.62) 0.34
Hippocampal sclerosis 0.91 (0.51, 1.61) 0.75 1.34 (0.62, 2.89) 0.45
Cerebral Microinfarcts
  Any 0.94 (0.76, 1.15) 0.54 1.18 (0.85, 1.66) 0.32
  Any cortical 0.90 (0.68, 1.19) 0.47 1.58 (1.06, 2.35) 0.026
  Any deep 1.02 (0.78, 1.33) 0.90 1.30 (0.83, 2.05) 0.25
Lewy bodies
  Any 1.00 (0.73, 1.37) 0.99 1.44 (0.87, 2.39) 0.16
  Substantia Nigra / Locus
    Ceruleus
1.04 (0.74, 1.45) 0.84 1.48 (0.86, 2.55) 0.16
  Frontal or temporal cortex 1.59 (1.06, 2.39) 0.025 1.75 (0.82, 3.77) 0.15
  Amygdala / limbic 1.22 (0.88, 1.69) 0.24 1.16 (0.59, 2.27) 0.67
*

See footnotes to Table 3. Across the three studies there were 1,439 people with no reported TBI with LOC. These models adjusted for age at death, sex, years of education, and indicator terms for ROS, MAP, and three different enrollment groups for ACT