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. 2019 Dec 26;11:109. doi: 10.1186/s13195-019-0565-1

Table 3.

Results for regression models with sex, diagnosis (cognitively normal or symptomatic), Aβ/P-tau status, and their interactions predicting recall omissions on the ADAS word recall task and total hippocampal volume

Variable ADAS 10 Word Recall Omissions
Estimate p
Intercept 0.56 0.704
Diagnosis (0 = CN, 1 = symptomatic) 2.51 < 0.001
Age 0.0088 0.61
Education −0.107 < 0.001
Total intracranial volume (z-scored) 0.225 0.039
Sex (0 = male) 0.22 0.74
Hippocampal volume (z-scored) −0.781 < 0.001
APOE ε4 Genotype (0 = no ε4) 0.049 0.79
CSF Aβ/P-tau positivity (Aβ/P-tau+) (0 = not Aβ/P-tau+) 1.97 0.10
Aβ/P-tau+ × diagnosis −0.63 0.33
Aβ/P-tau+ × sex −4.05 0.008
Diagnosis × sex −0.76 0.06
Aβ/P-tau+ × diagnosis × sex 2.92 < 0.001
Variable Total hippocampal volume
Estimate p
Intercept 10,938 < 0.001
Diagnosis (0 = CN, 1 = symptomatic) − 547 < 0.001
Age −82.8 < 0.001
Education 5.00 0.64
Total intracranial volume (z-scored) 0.0019 < 0.001
Sex (0 = male) − 166 0.59
APOE ε4 Genotype (0 = no ε4) 20.7 0.81
Aβ/P-tau+ (0 = not Aβ/P-tau+) 453 0.42
Aβ/P-tau+ × diagnosis − 401 0.18
Aβ/P-tau+ × sex −72.1 0.92
Diagnosis × sex 77.8 0.68
Aβ/P-tau+ × diagnosis × sex −76.0 0.84

Abbreviations: Aβ/P-tau+ amyloid beta/P-tau positivity, ADAS Alzheimer’s disease Assessment Scale, APOE apolipoprotein E, CN cognitively normal, CSF cerebrospinal fluid, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination

significant p values had been bolded (p < .05)