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. 2020 Nov 9;12:601487. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.601487

TABLE 3.

Contemporaneous associations between lifestyle factors and cognitive scores (between- and within-person effects).

Immediate verbal recall
Delayed verbal recall
Digit Span
Verbal fluency
Estimate SE pa R2 ICCb p (full model)c Estimate SE pa R2 ICCb p (full model)c Estimate SE pa R2 ICCb p (full model)c Estimate SE pa R2 ICCb p (full model)c
Vegetable and fruit intake (*100g/day) 0.07 0.01 <0.01 0.12 <0.01 0.08 0.01 <0.01 0.04 <0.01 0.07 0.02 <0.01 0.07 <0.01 0.39 0.03 <0.01 0.22 <0.01
Between-person effect 0.1 0.02 <0.01 0.13 0.14 0.02 <0.01 0.13 0.09 0.03 <0.01 0.14 0.37 0.05 <0.01 0.15
Within-person effect 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.09 0.02 0.02 0.32 0.09 0.05 0.03 0.07 0.1 0.4 0.04 <0.01 0.12
BMI –0.02 0 <0.01 0.21 <0.01 –0.03 0.01 <0.01 0.04 <0.01 –0.03 0.01 <0.01 0.17 <0.01 –0.05 0.01 <0.01 0.23 <0.01
Between-person effect –0.02 0.01 <0.01 0.13 –0.02 0.01 <0.01 0.13 –0.03 0.01 <0.01 0.13 –0.06 0.02 <0.01 0.15
Within-person effect –0.01 0.01 0.15 0.09 –0.05 0.01 <0.01 0.09 –0.03 0.01 0.07 0.1 0 0.03 0.9 0.11
WHR –0.09 0.2 0.65 0.21 0.77 –0.12 0.24 0.62 0.03 0.53 0.39 0.33 0.25 0.07 0.045 –1.93 0.6 <0.01 0.24 0.02
Between-person effect –0.12 0.27 0.67 0.09 –0.15 0.32 0.65 0.13 –0.12 0.46 0.8 0.13 –0.24 0.87 0.79 0.15
Within-person effect –0.06 0.3 0.84 0.12 –0.08 0.35 0.82 0.09 0.93 0.49 0.06 0.1 –3.65 0.87 <0.01 0.11
Physical activity level 0.17 0.02 <0.01 0.19 <0.01 0.16 0.03 <0.01 0.02 <0.01 0.16 0.04 <0.01 0.09 <0.01 0.99 0.07 <0.01 0.19 <0.01
Between-person effect 0.16 0.03 <0.01 0.13 0.15 0.04 <0.01 0.13 0.28 0.06 <0.01 0.14 1.2 0.1 <0.01 0.17
Within-person effect 0.18 0.04 <0.01 0.09 0.16 0.04 <0.01 0.09 0.03 0.06 0.6 0.1 0.8 0.1 <0.01 0.13
Sedentary time (hours/day) 0.01 0.01 0.19 0.18 0.2 0.01 0.01 0.18 0.01 0.18 –0.03 0.01 <0.01 0.11 <0.01 0.15 0.02 <0.01 0.17 <0.01
Between-person effect 0.01 0.01 0.16 0.12 0.02 0.01 0.1 0.12 0 0.02 0.91 0.13 0.18 0.03 <0.01 0.15
Within-person effect 0 0.01 0.66 0.09 0 0.01 0.85 0.09 –0.07 0.02 <0.01 0.1 0.12 0.03 <0.01 0.12

aAdjusted for age, sex, education, smoking, drinking, and self-reported common chronic health conditions including arthritis, angina, diabetes, chronic lung disease, asthma, hypertension, depression and cataract. bConditional intraclass correlation. cAdditionally adjusted for all other lifestyle factors of this study.