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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2019 Jul-Sep;33(3):226–232. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000310

Table 2:

Summary of Stepwise multinomial logistic regression for MoCA subtests and clinician diagnosis of normal cognition (NC) or dementia (dem), with MCI as the reference group. Missing entries in the table are those not selected by the stepwise algorithm.

Overall Non-Hispanic Whites Non-Hispanic Blacks Hispanics
Variable Dx Order B SE B β Order B SE B β Order B SE B β Order B SE B β
Visuospatial/Executive NC 5 0.32 0.72 0.24** 4 0.41 0.06 0.32** 3 0.25 0.11 0.17* 3 0.35 0.20 0.28
Dem −0.26 0.05 −0.20** −0.26 0.05 −0.12** −0.63 0.19 −0.43* −0.73 −0.28 −0.57**
Naming NC 8 0.35 0.11 0.12* 7 0.45 0.13 0.16**
Dem −0.22 0.10 −0.08* −0.32 0.11 −0.11*
Attention NC 3 0.24 0.06 0.19** 2 0.39 0.08 0.32** 5 0.11 0.11 0.08
Dem −0.23 0.05 −0.25** −0.33 0.06 −0.27** −0.48 0.14 −0.37**
Language NC 4 0.44 0.06 0.25** 5 0.45 0.07 0.25** 4 0.52 0.13 0.28**
Dem −0.20 0.06 −0.11* −0.23 0.07 −0.13* 0.11 0.21 0.06
Abstraction NC 9 0.14 0.08 0.06 9 0.21 0.10 0.08*
Dem −0.29 0.08 −0.12** −0.36 0.09 −0.14**
Delayed Recall NC 1 0.61 0.03 0.63** 1 0.67 0.04 0.69** 2 0.48 0.07 0.45** 2 0.46 0.14 0.44**
Dem −0.22 0.04 −0.22** −0.17 0.05 −0.18** −0.37 0.15 −0.34* −0.15 0.22 −0.15
Orientation NC 2 0.85 0.12 0.64** 3 0.92 0.14 0.70** 1 0.66 0.24 0.42* 1 1.02 0.56 0.91
Dem −0.85 0.07 −0.64** −0.81 0.07 −0.62** −0.88 0.20 −0.56** −1.53 0.44 −1.36**
Age NC 7 0.00 0.01 0.00 6 0.01 0.01 0.03
Dem −0.04 0.01 −0.19** −0.04 0.01 −0.19**
Education NC 6 −0.10 0.02 −0.16** 8 −0.09 0.02 −0.14** 4 −0.16 0.06 −0.36*
Dem 0.09 0.02 0.31** −0.09 0.02 0.09* 0.02 0.09 0.04
R2 0.67 0.69 0.59 0.65
*

p < 0.05;

**

p <0.001