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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2021;80(3):1269–1279. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200998

Table 4.

Association between elevated depressive symptoms and brain volume

MRI outcome measure Model 1*
Model 2**
p for interaction term
between APOE4
status and elevated
depressive symptoms
B SE p B SE p
Total cerebral brain volume −5.836 6.194 0.346 −5.050 6.315 0.424 0.322
Frontal lobe brain volumea < 0.001 < 0.001 0.818 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.852 0.472
Temporal lobe brain volumea 0.001 < 0.001 0.027 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.112 0.827
Hippocampal brain volumea < 0.001 < 0.001 0.142 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.249 0.509
Left hippocampal brain volumea < 0.001 < 0.001 0.092 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.161 0.237
Right hippocampal brain volumea < 0.001 < 0.001 0.279 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.445 0.944
White matter hyperintensity volume 0.004 0.166 0.978 0.086 0.168 0.605 0.805
Model 1*
Model 2**
C-statistic OR (95% CI) p C-statistic OR (95% CI) p
Extensive white matter hyperintensity volume (yes versus no) 0.593 1.310
(0.823–2.083)
0.254 0.635 1.137
(0.700–1.846)
0.603
a

Expressed as a percentage of total cerebrum cranial volume.

*

Adjusted for age, sex, education, and time between CES-D and MRI.

**

Additional adjustments for hypertension, history of diabetes, current smoking, any alcohol use, history of cardiovascular disease, and APOE4 status. Two-sided significance set at p < 0.01.