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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Feb 4;68(5):1044–1049. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16337

Table 2.

The HR of APOE Genotype From Cox Proportional Hazards Model

AD Cohort (N = 11 871) MCI Cohort (N = 8305)
Unadjusted Model Adjusted Modela Unadjusted Model Adjusted Modela
Variable HR (95% CI) P Value HR (95% CI) P Value HR (95% CI) P Value HR (95% CI) P Value
ε3ε3 (Reference group)
ε3ε4 2.11 (1.9–2.33) <.0001 2.1 (1.89–2.33) <.0001 1.24 (1.11–1.37) <.0001 1.41 (1.27–1.57) <.0001
ε2ε3 0.78 (0.65–0.95) .013 0.82 (0.67–0.99) .041 0.95 (0.82–1.11) .511 0.9 (0.77–1.05) .181
ε4ε4 3.88 (3.3–4.55) <.0001 3.57 (3.03–4.22) <.0001 1.8 (1.43–2.25) <.0001 2.53 (2.01–3.18) <.0001
ε2ε4 1.64 (1.24–2.16) <.0001 1.74 (1.32–2.3) <.0001 1.35 (1.03–1.77) .032 1.52 (1.15–1.99) .003
ε2ε2 0.47 (0.15–1.45) .186 0.45 (0.14–1.39) .164 1.29 (0.71–2.33) .403 1.19 (0.65–2.15) .576
ε2ε4 comparing to other genotype as reference group
ε2ε4 vs ε3ε4 0.78 (0.59–1.02) .074 0.83 (0.63–1.09) .187 1.09 (0.83–1.44) .547 1.07 (0.81–1.42) .620
ε2ε4 vs ε4ε4 0.42 (0.31–0.57) <.0001 0.49 (0.36–0.66) <.0001 0.75 (0.53–1.06) .100 0.60 (0.42–0.84) .003
ε2ε4 vs ε2ε3 2.09 (1.52–2.88) <.0001 2.13 (1.54–2.94) <.0001 1.42 (1.05–1.91) .022 1.68 (1.25–2.27) .001
ε2ε4 vs ε2ε2 3.52 (1.10–11.3) .034 3.90 (1.22–12.5) .022 1.05 (0.55–2.00) .894 1.28 (0.67–2.44) .457

Note: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; HR, hazard ratio; MCI, mild cognitive impairment.

a

Models were adjusted for age, sex, education, baseline cognitive status, and year of initial visit.