Table 3.
Reducing Disability in Alzheimer’s Disease-NorthWest Intervention Effects for Exercise Days Adjusted for Site Location, Age, Sex, and MMSE
| Mean (SE) (95% CI) change from |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SE)(95% CI) | Control assessment | Primary assessment | Follow-up assessment | ||||
| Variable | Baseline | Baseline to Pretreatment | p Value | Pretreatment to Posttreatment | p Value | Pretreatment to 13 months | p Value |
| Persons with dementiaa | |||||||
| Urban AAAb | 1.57 (0.19)(1.21 to 1.94) | 0.15 (0.19)(−0.22 to 0.53) | .42 | 0.06 (0.18)(−0.29 to 0.41) | .74 | 0.33 (0.22)(−0.10 to 0.75) | .13 |
| Age ≥ 80 year | 1.35 (0.16)(1.04 to 1.67) | −0.20 (0.19)(−0.58 to 0.18) | .31 | 0.24 (0.18)(−0.11 to 0.59) | .18 | 0.28 (0.22)(−0.14 to 0.71) | .19 |
| Men | 1.74 (0.19)(1.37 to 2.12) | −0.03 (0.19)(−0.41 to 0.35) | .88 | −0.13 (0.18)(−0.49 to 0.22) | .45 | −0.46 (0.21) (−0.88 to −0.05) |
.03 |
| MMSE ≥ 16 | 1.51 (0.18)(1.16 to 1.85) | 0.17 (0.19)(−0.20 to 0.55) | .37 | −0.02 (0.18)(−0.37 to 0.33) | .91 | 0.18 (0.22)(−0.24 to 0.60) | .40 |
Note: MMSE, mini-mental state examination; AAA, area agencies on aging.
aEstimates for exercise days from repeated measures, negative binomial regression model with a random intercept.
bReferent group is rural AAA.