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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2021 Dec 9:10.1002/alz.12528. doi: 10.1002/alz.12528

Table 4.

Diagnostic incidence of AD and ADRD by APOE genotype and race/ethnicity in the Multiethnic Cohort Study (1999-2014; N = 16,034).

Events Person-
years
ASDIR Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)
Model 1 Model 2
(a) Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
Number of e4 allele = 0
 African American 167 24445 575.5 1.40 (1.08-1.81) 1.33 (1.02-1.74)
 Japanese American 192 41205 422.1 0.99 (0.77-1.27) 0.93 (0.71-1.20)
 Latino 109 23611 531.0 1.28 (0.96-1.69) 1.12 (0.83-1.52)
 Native Hawaiian 43 14394 445.1 1.02 (0.70-1.46) 0.92 (0.63-1.34)
 White 90 19202 420.7 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
 P for race/ethnicity 0.0068 0.014
Number of e4 alleles = 1 or 2
 African American 172 13858 1152.8 1.12 (0.85-1.49) 1.16 (0.87-1.54)
 Japanese American 81 9190 889.4 0.89 (0.64-1.23) 0.91 (0.66-1.27)
 Latino 42 5900 913.1 0.93 (0.63-1.37) 0.94 (0.62-1.42)
 Native Hawaiian 56 7850 1064.0 0.99 (0.69-1.41) 1.05 (0.73-1.52)
 White 69 6730 1002.7 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
 P for race/ethnicity 0.49 0.48
P for race/ethnicity by APOE 0.62 0.56
(b) Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD)
Number of e4 allele = 0
 African American 460 23568 1729.3 1.46 (1.25-1.70) 1.34 (1.14-1.58)
 Japanese American 482 40201 1134.7 0.92 (0.79-1.08) 0.85 (0.73-1.00)
 Latino 270 23024 1390.2 1.14 (0.96-1.36) 1.00 (0.83-1.20)
 Native Hawaiian 128 14077 1306.8 1.08 (0.87-1.34) 0.96 (0.77-1.21)
 White 244 18734 1205.7 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
 P for race/ethnicity < 0.0001 < 0.0001
Number of e4 alleles = 1 or 2
 African American 361 13154 2698.5 1.30 (1.06-1.59) 1.24 (1.00-1.52)
 Japanese American 171 8877 2070.5 1.03 (0.82-1.30) 1.02 (0.81-1.29)
 Latino 98 5717 2291.0 1.14 (0.87-1.48) 1.04 (0.78-1.38)
 Native Hawaiian 110 7669 2195.7 1.00 (0.77-1.29) 0.99 (0.76-1.30)
 White 127 6455 1964.0 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
P for race/ethnicity 0.022 0.10
P for race/ethnicity by APOE 0.79 0.67

ASDIR (age-standardized diagnostic incidence rate per 1000 person-years)

Model 1: Cox proportional hazards regression model adjusted for age at cohort entry and age at Medicare follow-up start

Model 2: includes Model 1 adjustments + education, history of heart disease, stroke, diabetes or hypertension at cohort baseline, and mean annual Medicare usage (in-patient, out-patient) over follow-up

Note: P for race/ethnicity for the overall racial/ethnic difference was obtained from the Wald Chi-square test for the main effect of race/ethnicity in the sex-combined Cox regression model for AD or ADRD stratified by the APOE e4 risk allele carrier status. P for race/ethnicity by APOE for the heterogeneity of the racial/ethnic differences between non-carriers and carriers of the APOE e4 risk allele was obtained based on the interaction term between the APOE genotype trend variable and race/ethnicity in the combined Cox regression model for AD or ADRD.