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Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2020 Dec 13;29(9):972–981. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2020.12.007

Table 2.

Associations between functional health literacy (inadequate or marginal vs. adequate) and participants’ characteristics (backward selection multiple logistic regression)

Characteristics	Odds Ratio	95% CI	P-Value

Age at first S-TOFHLA	0.86	(0.82,0.91)	<.001
Sex: Female, (ref: Male)	3.65	(1.62,8.74)	<.001
Education (ref: < High School)
= High School	1.83	(0.43,7.57)	0.41
> High School	3.09	(0.69,13.7)	0.14
Race (ref: Non-White)	2.1	(0.64,6.5)	0.21
Clinical Dementia Rating>= 0.5	0.47	(0.2,1.16)	0.09
Executive function composite < 1.5 SD	0.37	(0.14,1.01)	0.05
Visuospatial function composite < 1.5 SD	0.39	(0.14,1.09)	0.06
WTAR Standard Score	1.08	(1.04,1.12)	<.001

SD: standard deviations below the mean;

CDR: Clinical Dementia Rating® ;

WTAR: Wechsler Test of Adult Reading