Skip to main content
. 2018 Dec 26;75(5):995–1002. doi: 10.1093/gerona/gly289

Table 2.

Distribution of Anticholinergic Burden Score by Phenotype and Difference Between Healthy Control and Phenotype

% (n) Cognitive Impairment Frailty Cognitive Frailty Cognitive Impairment Cognitive Frailty
ACB MMSE (n = 298) CHS (n = 512) MMSE (n = 223) Trail A (n = 418) Trail B (n = 493) Trail A (n = 267) Trail B (n = 274)
0 47.0% (141) 51.0% (261) 42.2% (94) 57.9% (242) 62.9% (310) 50.2% (134) 55.5% (152)
1 23.6% (70) 22.9% (117) 25.1% (56) 20.6% (86) 20.1% (99) 22.5% (60) 21.2% (58)
2 14.5% (43) 11.9% (61) 16.1% (36) 10.8% (45) 7.9% (39) 13.1% (35) 9.9% (27)
3 10.1% (30) 8.8% (45) 11.2% (25) 6.7% (28) 5.5% (27) 8.2% (22) 7.7% (21)
4 2.7% (8) 3% (16) 3.1% (7) 2.4% (10) 2.4% (12) 3.4% (9) 3.6% (10)
5 1.0% (3) 1.4% (7) 0.9% (2) 1.0% (4) 1.0% (5) 1.5% (4) 1.8% (5)
6 0.7% (2) 0.8% (4) 0.9% (2) 0.5% (2) 0.2% (1) 0.7% (2) 0.4% (1)
9 0.3% (1) 0.2% (1) 0.4% (1) 0.2% (1) (0) 0.4% (1) (0)
Control 0[6] 0[5] 0[6] 0[5] 0[4] 0[5] 0[4]
Phenotype 1[9] 0[9] 1[9] 0[9] 0[6] 0[9] 0[6]
p-value* <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 .042 <.001 <.001

Note: ACB = Anticholinergic drug burden; CHS = Cardiovascular Heart Study; MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination.

*Nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis t test to assess differences among groups; median and maximum quantiles.