Appendix.

Table 3Full table of Marginal effects from generalized linear Regression Models Predicting Cognition (Mini-Mental Cabán) in Puerto Rican older adults, PREHCO (2002)

	Pooled				Males				Females
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Color/Race (reference: white)
Negro/a	−0.25	−0.26	−0.21	−0.19	−0.19	−0.23	−0.083	−0.034	−0.25	−0.24	−0.27	−0.28
	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.25)	(0.25)	(0.50)	(0.50)	(0.45)	(0.46)	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.25)	(0.25)
Trigueño/a or Mulato/a	−0.14	−0.13	0.0091	0.018	0.13	0.17	0.28+	0.30+	−0.32*	−0.32*	−0.16	−0.16
	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.17)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)
Mestizo/a	0.058	0.062	0.10	0.12	0.19	0.24	0.24	0.29	−0.042	−0.050	0.061	0.060
	(0.24)	(0.23)	(0.21)	(0.21)	(0.37)	(0.35)	(0.31)	(0.30)	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.24)	(0.24)
Own education (reference: 6th grade or less)
7-12th grade			0.81***	0.81***			0.86***	0.87***			0.81***	0.81***
			(0.12)	(0.12)			(0.20)	(0.20)			(0.16)	(0.16)
More than 12th grade			1.36***	1.37***			1.28***	1.29***			1.47***	1.47***
			(0.15)	(0.15)			(0.23)	(0.23)			(0.17)	(0.17)
Father literacy (reference: father not literate)
Father literate			0.36**	0.36**			0.25	0.26			0.44*	0.44*
			(0.13)	(0.13)			(0.19)	(0.19)			(0.18)	(0.17)
Father literacy unknown			0.25	0.43+			0.60+	0.61+			0.32	0.32
			(0.23)	(0.23)			(0.36)	(0.35)			(0.28)	(0.28)
Perceived Color Discrimination				−0.19				−0.37				0.080
				(0.26)				(0.39)				(0.28)
Socio-demographic variables
Female	0.41***	0.46***	0.50***	0.49***
	(0.12)	(0.13)	(0.13)	(0.12)
Age	−0.11	−0.12	−0.10	−0.10	−0.47**	−0.53**	−0.53**	−0.52**	0.11	0.12	0.14	0.14
	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.18)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.15)	(0.15)	(0.14)	(0.14)
Age squared	0.00035	0.00044	0.00040	0.00039	0.0029*	0.0034**	0.0035**	0.0034**	−0.0013	−0.0013	−0.0014	−0.0014
	(0.00081)	(0.00080)	(0.00079)	(0.00079)	(0.0012)	(0.0012)	(0.0012)	(0.0012)	(0.00099)	(0.00099)	(0.00097)	(0.00096)
Foreign-born	0.020	0.015	−0.042	−0.042	0.23	0.19	0.013	0.0026	−0.081	−0.073	−0.058	−0.059
	(0.28)	(0.28)	(0.28)	(0.28)	(0.39)	(0.37)	(0.38)	(0.37)	(0.39)	(0.39)	(0.39)	(0.39)
Rural childhood	−0.59***	−0.58***	−0.17	−0.17	−0.78***	−0.81***	−0.44**	−0.45**	−0.44**	−0.41**	0.033	0.034
	(0.11)	(0.11)	(0.11)	(0.11)	(0.17)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.13)	(0.13)
Married	0.30*	0.30*	0.26*	0.26*	0.25	0.24	0.18	0.19	0.31+	0.30+	0.28+	0.28+
	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.12)	(0.18)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.16)	(0.16)
Health conditions & behaviors
Diabetes		0.13	0.13	0.13		0.38*	0.35*	0.35*		−0.059	−0.016	−0.017
		(0.13)	(0.13)	(0.13)		(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.17)		(0.18)	(0.18)	(0.18)
Hypertension		−0.095	−0.14	−0.14		−0.16	−0.23	−0.23		−0.044	−0.052	−0.052
		(0.12)	(0.11)	(0.11)		(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)		(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.16)
Ever smoke		−0.039	−0.0017	0.0010		0.084	0.085	0.091		−0.20	−0.095	−0.095
		(0.13)	(0.12)	(0.12)		(0.16)	(0.15)	(0.15)		(0.20)	(0.18)	(0.18)
Exercise		0.30**	0.085	0.084		0.49**	0.33*	0.33*		0.19	−0.085	−0.084
		(0.11)	(0.11)	(0.11)		(0.17)	(0.16)	(0.16)		(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.14)
N	3575	3575	3575	3575	1429	1429	1429	1429	2146	2146	2146	2146

Notes: Weighted analysis. Standard errors in parentheses. + p < 0.10; *p < 0.05 ; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.