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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Sep 30;69(2):381–388. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16852

Table 3.

Cox Regression Predicting Risk of Incident Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome from Baseline Purpose in Life in HRS and NHATS

Predictor HRS NHATS
Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2
HR (CI) p HR (CI) P HR (CI) p HR (CI) p
Age (years) 1.29 (1.17–1.41) .000 1.26 (1.14–1.38) .000 1.44 (1.25–1.65) .000 1.25 (1.07–1.46) .000
Gender (female) .79 (.66–.96) .015 .81 (.67–.98) .028 .72 (.54–.96) .026 .80 (.59–1.07) .798
Race (African American) 2.38 (1.82–3.12) .000 2.11 (1.59–2.79) .000 2.02 (1.45–2.81) .000 1.54 (1.08–2.20) .016
Education (years) .75 (.69–.81) .000 .78 (.72–.85) .000 .62 (.53–.72) .000 .75 (.64–.89) .001
Cognitive function -- -- .85 (.77–.95) .004 -- -- .60 (.50–.71) .000
Purpose in life .74 (.67–.81) .000 .75 (.69–.82) .000 .81 (.72–.91) .000 .82 (.73–.93) .002

Note. N=4,616 in HRS and N=2,877 in NHATS. HR=Hazard ratio. CI=95% confidence interval. Model 2 includes cognitive function as an additional covariate.