Table 4A.
Association between prevalent and interim atrial fibrillation and annual change in neuropsychological test performance (Interim AF N=140: Original=31; Offspring=109).
Cognitive Measure | Model 1* | Model 2** | Cohort Interaction p | ||||
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β | SE | p | β | SE | p | ||
Visual Reproduction: Immediate Recall | |||||||
noAF | Ref | Ref | 0.76 | ||||
prevAF | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.856 | −0.01 | 0.08 | 0.897 | |
intAF | −0.009 | 0.06 | 0.878 | −0.03 | 0.06 | 0.573 | |
Visual Reproduction: Delayed Recall | |||||||
noAF | Ref | Ref | 0.86 | ||||
prevAF | −0.07 | 0.08 | 0.371 | −0.10 | 0.08 | 0.221 | |
intAF | −0.04 | 0.06 | 0.454 | −0.07 | 0.06 | 0.267 | |
Similarities (abstract reasoning) | |||||||
noAF | Ref | Ref | 0.098 | ||||
prevAF | −0.06 | 0.09 | 0.503 | −0.004 | 0.10 | 0.964 | |
intAF | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.467 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.737 | |
Hooper Visual Organization test | |||||||
noAF | Ref | Ref | 0.13 | ||||
prevAF | −0.07 | 0.07 | 0.367 | −0.02 | 0.08 | 0.802 | |
intAF | −0.11 | 0.06 | 0.050 | −0.09 | 0.06 | 0.129 | |
Trail Making Test – A | |||||||
noAF | Ref | Ref | 0.66 | ||||
prevAF | −0.03 | 0.02 | 0.075 | −0.01 | 0.02 | 0.548 | |
intAF | 0.008 | 0.01 | 0.514 | 0.009 | 0.01 | 0.463 | |
Trail Making Test – (B-A) | |||||||
noAF | Ref | Ref | <0.001 | ||||
prevAF | −0.25 | 0.06 | <0.001 | −0.31 | 0.06 | <0.001 | |
intAF | −0.08 | 0.04 | 0.071 | −0.10 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
Adjusted for age, sex, education, time between baseline examination and NP testing, and cohort.
Additional adjustments for systolic BP, diastolic BP, antihypertensive medications, myocardial infarction and heart failure, smoking status, and ApoE ε4.