TABLE 2.

Dietary associations with standardized cognitive score¹

	Crude association			Adjusted 1			Adjusted 2			Adjusted 3
	(n = 516)			(n = 516)			(n = 516)			(n = 441)
Dietary correlates	β	SE	P	β	SE	P	β	SE	P	β	SE	P
Vitamin C, mg	−0.004	0.005	0.418	0.008	0.004	0.062	0.005	0.003	0.128	0.005	0.003	0.154
Vitamin B-6, mg	2.334	0.652	0.001	1.755	0.621	0.005	−0.035	0.429	0.936	−0.147	0.442	0.739
Fructose, g	−0.019	0.018	0.289	0.005	0.017	0.761	0.026	0.012	0.027	0.014	0.012	0.236
Sucrose, g	−0.008	0.016	0.594	−0.012	0.015	0.402	0.013	0.010	0.209	0.007	0.010	0.522
ω-3, g	1.469	5.276	0.781	5.203	4.971	0.296	−0.216	3.327	0.948	−0.948	3.404	0.781
Whole grains, g	0.001	0.000	0.023	0.001	0.000	0.018	0.000	0.000	0.206	0.000	0.000	0.327
Processed meats, g	−0.002	0.001	0.004	−0.001	0.001	0.013	−0.001	0.000	0.065	−0.001	0.000	0.021
Foods fried at home
Never/less than once per week2
1–3 times per week	−2.934	0.501	<.0001	−2.153	0.496	<.0001	−0.800	0.348	0.022	−0.831	0.355	0.020
4–6 times per week	−4.689	0.958	<.0001	−3.272	0.952	0.001	−1.262	0.669	0.060	−1.148	0.695	0.099
Daily	−8.461	1.403	<.0001	−6.654	1.378	<.0001	−1.835	0.994	0.065	−3.459	1.489	0.021

¹Crude association: adjusted for total calorie intake; adjusted 1: adjusted for total calorie intake, sex, age at follow-up, and race; adjusted 2: same as adjusted 1 plus physical activity, diabetes, hypertension, BMI at follow-up, word score, and education; and adjusted 3: same as adjusted 2 plus depressive symptoms.

²Reference group.