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

TABLE 4.

Contemporaneous associations between lifestyle factors and cognitive scores including interactions.

Immediate verbal recall
Delayed verbal recall
Digit span
Verbal fluency
Estimate SE p Estimate SE p Estimate SE p Estimate SE p
Vegetable and fruit intake (*100g/day) 0.196 0.164 0.234 0.369 0.197 0.061 –0.115 0.275 0.677 0.756 0.488 0.121
Vegetable and fruit intake*age 0.002 0.001 0.253 0.001 0.002 0.530 0.005 0.002 0.046 0.004 0.004 0.333
Vegetable and fruit intake*sex 0.033 0.023 0.195 0.005 0.027 0.903 0.014 0.038 0.739 0.002 0.068 0.924
BMI –0.137 0.066 0.030 –0.171 0.079 0.030 –0.166 0.111 0.140 –0.199 0.197 0.304
BMI*age 0.001 0.001 0.142 0.001 0.001 0.041 0.002 0.001 0.024 0.003 0.002 0.103
BMI*sex 0.016 0.010 0.109 0.011 0.012 0.338 –0.019 0.016 0.266 0.014 0.029 0.631
WHR 2.561 2.249 0.255 2.982 2.690 0.267 7.088 3.768 0.059 10.490 6.653 0.115
WHR*age –0.018 0.027 0.504 –0.039 0.033 0.238 –0.084 0.046 0.070 –0.114 0.081 0.159
WHR*sex –0.580 0.469 0.215 –0.792 0.562 0.159 –0.357 0.784 0.649 –2.396 1.396 0.086
Physical activity level 0.145 0.400 0.717 0.522 0.480 0.277 –1.232 0.670 0.066 2.261 1.189 0.057
Physical activity level*age 0.004 0.003 0.268 –0.001 0.004 0.728 0.014 0.006 0.013 –0.012 0.010 0.237
Physical activity level*sex 0.010 0.054 0.843 0.038 0.064 0.552 –0.025 0.090 0.787 –0.208 0.160 0.202
Sedentary time (hours/day) 0.142 0.107 0.205 0.118 0.128 0.356 0.227 0.180 0.207 0.287 0.317 0.365
Sedentary time*age –0.001 0.001 0.249 –0.003 0.001 0.009 –0.002 0.001 0.075 –0.003 0.002 0.238
Sedentary time*sex –0.013 0.015 0.414 0.000 0.017 0.963 –0.030 0.024 0.215 –0.085 0.044 0.050
Vegetable and fruit intake*BMI –0.002 0.003 0.549 –0.009 0.004 0.018 0.002 0.005 0.730 –0.005 0.009 0.583
Vegetable and fruit intake*WHR –0.337 0.145 0.020 –0.232 0.173 0.180 –0.386 0.242 0.110 –0.632 0.428 0.139
Vegetable and fruit intake*physical activity level 0.016 0.016 0.336 0.021 0.019 0.279 0.054 0.027 0.045 –0.021 0.047 0.627
Vegetable and fruit intake*sedentary time 0.010 0.004 0.020 0.005 0.005 0.388 0.021 0.007 0.005 0.010 0.013 0.411
BMI*WHR 0.064 0.050 0.229 0.088 0.060 0.158 0.028 0.085 0.745 0.005 0.150 0.993
BMI*physical activity level –0.002 0.007 0.852 –0.004 0.009 0.713 –0.001 0.012 0.930 0.011 0.021 0.571
BMI*sedentary time 0.001 0.002 0.531 0.000 0.002 0.966 –0.001 0.003 0.770 –0.010 0.006 0.087
WHR*physical activity level –0.292 0.339 0.388 –0.455 0.407 0.254 0.312 0.567 0.578 –0.602 1.005 0.549
WHR*sedentary time –0.128 0.099 0.194 0.016 0.118 0.881 –0.149 0.166 0.355 0.438 0.293 0.135
Physical activity level*sedentary time 0.000 0.011 0.990 0.014 0.013 0.259 0.019 0.018 0.287 –0.015 0.032 0.657

Adjusted 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.