Table 2.

Model results for the impact of cardiovascular risk factors (CRF) on the change in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) per month for each of the diagnoses of interest.

	AD n=1899, nt=7519			DLB n=65, nt=236			FTD n=168, nt=626			VaD** n=13, nt=45			Normal n=3583, nt=18468
CRF	Est.	SE	p-value	Est.	SE	p-value	Est.	SE	p-value	Est.	SE	p-value	Est.	SE	p-value
BMI	0.0006	0.0005	0.2294	−0.0027	0.0045	0.5514	0.0092	0.0023	<0.0001	−0.0016	0.0042	0.6975	0.0001	0.0001	0.3265
Years Smoking	0.0002	0.0001	0.2048	0.0029	0.0012	0.0144	0.0023	0.0006	0.0003	0.0015	0.0013	0.2496	0.0000*	0.0000*	0.4473
Atrial Fibrillation	0.0069	0.0093	0.4569	−0.0643	0.0632	0.3096	0.0954	0.0400	0.0174	−0.0675	0.1624	0.6811	−0.0010	0.0011	0.3980
Diabetes	0.0081	0.0070	0.2492	0.0740	0.0892	0.4074	0.0463	0.0348	0.1836	−0.0068	0.0661	0.9194	0.0014	0.0009	0.1297
Hypertension	0.0177	0.0044	<0.0001	0.0235	0.0318	0.4618	−0.0384	0.0253	0.1300	0.0094	0.1383	0.9465	−0.0027	0.0006	<0.0001
Hyperchol.	0.0100	0.0044	0.0241	−0.0447	0.0301	0.1393	0.0050	0.0230	0.8271	−0.0313	0.0958	0.7467	0.0001	0.0005	0.8885

n=number of subjects, nt=total number of visits/observations

^*: due to rounding, estimate (Est.) or standard error (SE) is 0.00

^**: due to a small sample size, caution should be used in interpreting the results.