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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2017 Jan 30;53:83–92. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.01.017

Table 3.

Multivariable regression model of NACC participants compared to ACT participants

Characteristics OR for NACC
vs ACT*
95%CI p
Demographic and Clinical
  Older age at death (yrs) 0.66 (0.60, 0.82) <0.001
  Female 1.40 (1.08, 1.80) 0.01
  Non-white 1.03 (0.57, 1.88) 0.92
  College graduate 1.77 (1.38, 2.27) <0.001
  History of stroke 0.92 (0.65, 1.30) 0.64
  APOE ε4 allele 1.31 (0.99, 1.74) 0.06
  Demented at last visit 2.13 (1.35, 3.36) 0.001
  Clinical AD dementia 1.68 (1.07, 2.63) 0.02
Pathologic
  Intermediate ADNC 1.50 (1.03, 2.20) 0.03
  High ADNC 1.55 (1.09, 2.19) 0.01
  Cortical LBD 2.17 (1.30, 3.63) 0.003
  Cortical microinfarcts 0.35 (0.27, 0.46) <0.001
  Gross infarcts 1.01 (0.76, 1.35) 0.93
  Severe atherosclerosis 6.07 (2.64, 13.97) <0.001
  Severe CAA 3.17 (1.98, 5.08) <0.001
  Hippocampal sclerosis 0.69 (0.45, 1.07) 0.10
  Primary age-related tauopathy 1.72 (1.21, 2.45) 0.002

ACT, Adult Changes in Thought study; ADNC, Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic change; CAA, cerebral amyloid angiopathy; LBD, Lewy body disease; NACC, National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center

*

Based on a logistic regression model with ACT as the reference group; 498 NACC participants and 126 ACT participants excluded due to missing data; OR>1 if characteristic is more common in NACC compared to ACT