Table 3.
Logistic regression analyses of the association between memory impairment and health care resource utilization and function limitations
| Outcomes | N | Adjusted odds ratio∗ | 95% confidence interval |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower limit | Upper limit | ||||
| Overnight hospitalization | |||||
| Early-stage versus no impairment | 2180 | 1.29 | 0.98 | 1.68 | .0576 |
| Late-stage versus no impairment | 1465 | 1.27 | 0.72 | 2.23 | .3908 |
| Number of time health care received in the past year | |||||
| Early-stage versus no impairment | 2179 | 1.04 | 0.86 | 1.25 | .6908 |
| Late-stage versus no impairment | 1463 | 2.46 | 1.72 | 3.54 | <.0001 |
| Saw a mental health specialist in the past year | |||||
| Early-stage versus no impairment | 2180 | 1.54 | 0.95 | 2.50 | .0694 |
| Late-stage versus no impairment | 1464 | 3.06 | 1.53 | 6.14 | .0011 |
| Functional limitations | |||||
| Early-stage versus no impairment | 2180 | 1.32 | 0.93 | 1.87 | .1106 |
| Late-stage versus no impairment | 1465 | 7.26 | 3.34 | 15.78 | <.0001 |
∗
Controlling for age, gender, race, education, congestive heart failure/heart disease (coronary artery disease), diabetes mellitus, and body mass index.