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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Aug 23;67(12):2581–2586. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16151

Table 1.

Sample characteristics and correlations with bimanual gesture imitation score (n = 507)

Demographics Value, mean ± SD or No. (%) Range r(P value) or MD (P value) Age-adjusted P value

Age, y 68.3 ± 14.6 22 to 101 −0.2 (<.001)
Women 225 (55) 0.2 (.19) .167
Black 127 (31) −0.2 (.18) .107
Education, y 17.6 ± 2.4 8 to 25 0.01 (.84) .669
Body mass index, kg/m2 27.3 ± 5.2 16.9 to 52.5 −0.05 (.23) .147
Gesture imitation score 19 ± 2 6 to 21
Olfaction (n = 429) 11 ± 3 3 to 16 0.25 (<.001) <.001
Cognition
CVLT immediate recall 54 ± 12 20 to 80 0.16 (<.001) .023
Delta TMT 46 ± 31 −13 to 188 −0.22 (<.001) <.001
TMT part A, s 31 ± 13 5 to 120 −0.17 (<.001) .044
Card rotation 91 ± 41 0 to 216 0.17 (<.001) .021
DSST 45 ± 13 10 to 89 0.22 (<.001) .004
Letter fluency 15 ± 4 3 to 28 0.08 (.084) .303
Category fluency 16 ± 4 7 to 31 0.11 (.015) .470
Pegboard dominant hand performance, average number of pins from two trials 13 ± 2 5 to 18.5 0.15 (.001) .569
Pegboard nondominant hand performance, average number of pins from two trials 13 ± 2 6 to 18 0.18 (<.001) .089
Motor function
Simple dominant hand mean tapping time, s/tap 0.18 ± 0.03 0.12 to 0.30 −0.06 (.176) .519
Simple nondominant hand mean tapping time, s/tap 0.19 ± 0.03 0.13 to 0.27 −0.10 (.025) .803
Complex mean tapping time, s/tap 0.16 ± 0.06 0.07 to 0.67 −0.12 (.009) .290
Usual gait speed, m/s 1.2 ± 0.2 0.4 to 1.9 0.09 (.043) .913
Rapid gait speed, m/s 1.7 ± 0.4 0.5 to 3.4 0.12 (.006) .507
400-m Time, s (n = 480) 278 ± 63 184 to 625 −0.13 (.003) .548
Health ABC PPB score 2.7 ± 0.6 0.2 to 3.8 0.12 (.007) .813
Total standing balance time, s 80 ± 17 2 to 90 0.09 (.042) .850

Note: P value was based on Pearson’s correlation analysis or independent t-test, as appropriate. Values of olfactory score and time to complete TMT part A were log transformed due to skewed distributions. Olfactory test version was controlled in the analysis.

Abbreviations: CVLT, California Verbal Learning Test; DSST, Digit Symbol Substitution Test; MD, mean difference; PPB, Physical Performance Battery; TMT, Trail Making Test.