Table 4.

Proportional hazards for cause-specific death, estimated by Cox regression. Complete case analysis of 2952 individuals

	Verbal memory Sex-adjusted model				Search speed Sex-adjusted model				Mutually and sex-adjusted				Mutually and sex-, BMI-, systolic BP-, diabetes-, smoking-adjusted
	HR	95% CI		P	HR	95% CI		P	HR	95% CI		P	HR	95% CI		P
Cardiovascular deaths (n = 89)
Verbal memory age 43 (per SD)	0.68	0.55	0.84	<0.01					0.68	0.54	0.84	<0.01	0.79	0.63	0.99	0.04
Search speed age 43 (per SD)					0.78	0.63	0.97	0.03	0.83	0.67	1.04	0.1	0.95	0.76	1.19	0.7
Cancer deaths (n = 158)
Verbal memory age 43 (per SD)	0.92	0.78	1.09	0.3					0.94	0.80	1.12	0.5	0.98	0.82	1.16	0.8
Search speed age 43 (per SD)					0.75	0.64	0.88	<0.01	0.76	0.64	0.91	<0.01	0.77	0.65	0.91	<0.01

Verbal memory and search speed standardized to sample undertaking testing at age 43.