Table 2.

Estimated Odds Ratios of Dementia Onset from Discrete Time Hazard Models, HRS 2000–2014 (N of respondents = 15,379; N of person-periods = 86,538)

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Marital Status (ref: married)
Cohabiting	1.548*	1.548*	1.655*	1.652*	1.792*
Divorced/Separated	2.052***	1.852***	1.916***	1.750***	2.601***
Widowed	1.519***	1.414***	1.457***	1.369***	1.531***
Never married	1.595**	1.437*	1.610**	1.468*	1.706*
Demographic covariates
Female (=1)	1.179**	1.140*	1.122*	1.092	1.310**
Black (=1)	2.387***	2.222***	2.167***	2.062***	2.068***
Age	1.115***	1.114***	1.110***	1.109***	1.110***
Education (ref: 0–7 years)
8–11 years	0.704***	0.723**	0.685***	0.698***	0.701***
12 years	0.435***	0.466***	0.441***	0.462***	0.464***
13–17 years	0.296***	0.336***	0.327***	0.355***	0.358***
Proxy	14.125***	14.030***	13.032***	13.031***	13.228***
Economic Resources
Household income		0.851***		0.867***	0.864***
Net household wealth		1.004		1.048	1.043
Health-related Factors
Chronic conditions (0–4)			1.297***	1.290***	1.293***
Current Smoker (ref: no)
Yes			1.254*	1.239*	1.235*
Missing			0.795	0.804	0.804
Current drinker (ref: no)
Current light drinker			0.576***	0.588***	0.587***
Current heavy drinker			0.565***	0.576***	0.570***
Missing			1.475	1.452	1.433
Exercise (yes = 1)			0.986	0.990	0.985
Social activity (ref: yearly-never)
Daily-monthly			0.726***	0.730***	0.732***
Missing			0.810**	0.836*	0.833*
Interaction
Cohabiting × Female					0.818
Divorced/Separated × Female					0.502**
Widowed × Female					0.788*
Never married × Female					0.729

Note: ***p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05.