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. 2022 Feb 23;12(2):e053936. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053936

Table 3.

Associations of loneliness and isolation with incident dementia

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Predictor HR (95% CI) P value HR (95% CI) P value HR (95% CI) P value
Separate analyses
 Lonely versus not lonely 1.47 (1.20 to 1.80) <0.001 1.03 (0.81 to 1.30) 0.817 1.04 (0.82 to 1.32) 0.752
 Isolated versus no isolated 1.62 (1.39 to 1.90) <0.001 1.34 (1.12 to 1.60) 0.002 1.34 (1.12 to 1.60) 0.002
Combined analyses
 Lonely versus not lonely 1.28 (1.03 to 1.59) 0.024 0.95 (0.74 to 1.22) 0.689 0.96 (0.75 to 1.23) 0.716
 Isolated versus no isolated 1.58 (1.34 to 1.86) <0.001 1.33 (1.11 to 1.60) 0.002 1.33 (1.11 to 1.60) 0.003
 Observations 147 604/152 712 133 885/1 37 894 133 885/137 894

Model 1. Adjusted for age and sex.

Model 2. Adjusted for age, sex, education, social deprivation, health behaviours, long-term illness, depressive symptoms, genetic risk and 10 principal components.

Model 3. Adjusted for age, sex, education, social deprivation, health behaviours, long-term illness, depressive symptoms and apolipoprotein E genotype.

The values are HRs and 95% CI.