Table 1.
Characteristics of participants in both the cross-sectional and the longitudinal analyses
| Baseline characteristic | Cross-sectional | Five-year follow-up | Ten-year follow-up | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | With data | Without data | With data | Without data | |
| (n = 804) | (n = 604) | (n = 200) | (n = 255) | (n = 549) | |
| Age, M (SD) | 52.17 (7.59) | 52.28 (7.38) | 51.85 (8.21) | 49.92 (8.27) | 53.21 (7.01)*** |
| Years of education, M (SD) | 11.94 (3.89) | 11.88 (3.91) | 12.11 (3.87) | 12.22 (4.00) | 11.80 (3.84) |
| Female (%) | 55.7 | 55.3 | 57.0 | 56.5 | 55.4 |
| Subjective health—fairly < (%) | 94.4 | 94.9 | 93.0 | 95.7 | 93.8 |
| Physical exercise—once a week < (%) | 34.1 | 33.8 | 35.0 | 38.4 | 32.1 |
| Alcohol use (%) | 88.8 | 88.2 | 90.5 | 90.2 | 88.2 |
| Depressive symptoms, M (SD) | .79 (1.08) | .70 (1.02) | 1.04 (1.24)*** | .67 (.99) | .84 (1.12)* |
| Network size, M (SD) | 12.50 (3.82) | 12.59 (3.87) | 12.20 (3.69) | 12.78 (3.78) | 12.36 (3.84) |
Baseline information for accessible participants with 5-year and 10-year cognitive follow-up is compared to those without cognitive follow-up
* p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001