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Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2016 May 2;12(8):925–929. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.03.017

Table 2.

Partial correlations of waist circumference and the cognitive factors, controlling for socio-demographic (age, years of education), anthropomorphic (BMI) and cardiovascular (HbA1c, creatinine, total, LDL, and HDL cholesterols, triglycerides, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, and duration of T2D, T2D medication, inflammation (CRP and IL-6), and APOE ε4

Cognitive factors	r (P) males	r (P) females
Overall cognition	−0.024 (.624)	−0.185 (.003)
Language/semantic categorization	−0.038 (.437)	−0.256 (<.0001)
Attention/working memory	0.030 (.534)	−0.039 (.532)
Executive	−0.033 (.497)	−0.138 (.026)
Episodic memory	−0.021 (.671)	−0.091 (.144)

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; T2D, type 2 diabetes.