Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the study sample (n = 1157).

	Frequent book readers (42.5%)			Infrequent book readers (57.5%)
	Mean	SD	%	Mean	SD	%
Age	68.93	9.6		68.68	9.7
Females			64.4			51.4∗∗∗
Years of education	9.76	3.9		7.84∗∗∗	2.7
Episodic recall – z score	0.22	1.0		–0.16∗∗∗	0.9
Verbal fluency – z score	0.20	1.0		–0.15∗∗∗	1.0
	Frequent magazine readers (53.5%)			Infrequent magazine readers (46.5%)
	Mean	SD	%	Mean	SD	%
Age	69.63	9.6		67.66∗∗∗	9.7
Females			65.0			47.5∗∗∗
Years of education	8.30	3.3		9.07∗∗∗	3.6
Episodic recall – z score	–0.07	1.0		0.10∗∗	0.9
Verbal fluency – z score	–0.07	0.9		0.09∗∗	0.9

^∗∗p < 0.01, ^∗∗∗p < 0.001.