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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2016 Sep 6;32(10):1122–1130. doi: 10.1002/gps.4575

Table 2.

Baseline characteristics associated with global cognition trajectory classes

Risk factors (baseline) Cognition trajectories
Decline but high versus decline to low
Persistent high versus decline to low
Estimate S.E. OR P value Estimate S.E. OR P value
Age −0.12 0.02 0.89 <0.001 −0.18 0.03 0.84 <0.001
Male 0.17 0.25 1.19 0.48 −0.10 0.28 0.90 0.71
Born in Mexico 0.10 0.22 1.10 0.66 0.05 0.25 1.05 0.83
Education in years 0.18 0.04 1.19 <0.001 0.43 0.05 1.53 <0.001
Marital status/living arrangement
 Married and living alone −0.23 1.20 0.79 0.85 −1.62 1.44 0.18 0.26
 Not married and living alone −0.20 0.27 0.82 0.46 −0.65 0.31 0.52 0.04
 Not married and living alone 0.77 0.30 2.16 0.01 0.49 0.33 1.63 0.14
Physical functioning (need help), ADL −0.51 0.23 0.60 0.03 −1.35 0.32 0.26 <0.001
High depressive symptoms −0.03 0.27 0.97 0.91 −1.32 0.42 0.27 0.002
Any heart disease 0.10 0.23 1.11 0.66 −0.18 0.27 0.84 0.51
Hearing problem −0.55 0.24 0.58 0.02 −0.74 0.88 0.48 0.01

Any heart disease includes heart failure and heart attack.