Table 5.
Baseline Intercept partial correlations for middle aged and old participants after controlling for demographic covariates; age, sex, education, and an indicator variable to account for potential effects related to previous testing experience (one vs. two times).
| Odor identification | MMSE | EMS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correlation | p-value | Correlation | p-value | Correlation | p-value | |
| Non-carriers | ||||||
| MMSE | 0.045 | 0.186 | ||||
| EMS | 0.078 | 0.023 | 0.283 | 0.000 | ||
| SRB | 0.161 | 0.000 | 0.253 | 0.000 | 0.342 | 0.000 |
| ε4 Heterozygotes | ||||||
| MMSE | 0.008 | 0.887 | ||||
| EMS | 0.132 | 0.016 | 0.228 | 0.000 | ||
| SRB | 0.109 | 0.046 | 0.312 | 0.000 | 0.393 | 0.000 |
| ε4/4 Homozygotes | ||||||
| MMSE | 0.005 | 0.982 | ||||
| EMS | −0.084 | 0.682 | 0.555 | 0.003 | ||
| SRB | −0.104 | 0.615 | 0.153 | 0.455 | 0.268 | 0.186 |