. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 27.

Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Health Aging. 2018;22(10):1211–1215. doi: 10.1007/s12603-018-1094-5

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics by tertile of MIND diet score among Memory and Aging Project participants, 2004–2017

	Tertile of MIND diet score
	N	T1	T2	T3
Median MIND diet score	706	6.5	8.0	10.0
Age, mean ± SD, years	706	80.8 ± 7.5	80.8 ± 6.9	79.4 ± 6.9
Male %	706	30	24	21
Education, mean ± SD, years	706	14.5 ± 3.2	15.2± 2.8	15.6 ± 2.9
Smoking %, never	665	58	60	55
Global Cognitive function, mean ± SD, score	704	0.04 ± 0.64	0.31 ± 0.48	0.32 ± 0.49
Body Mass Index mean ± SD	687	27.5 ± 5.2	27.2 ± 4.6	26.5 ± 5.4
Depressive symptoms, mean ± SD, number	705	1.2 ± 1.7	0.9 ± 1.4	0.8 ± 1.4
Total Energy, mean ± SD, kcal/d	706	1698 ± 561	1785 ± 559	1746 ± 464

Abbreviations: MIND, Mediterranean-DASH diet intervention for neurodegenerative delay; IQR, Inter quartile range