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Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Oct 6;70(11):3250–3259. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18078

Table 2.

Hazard Ratios for the Association between Non-Hispanic Black Race (versus Non-Hispanic White, reference) and ADRD Clinical Diagnosis

	Hazard Ratio (95% CI)

Unadjusted	0.73 (0.61, 0.88)
Adjusted
Demographics^a	0.74 (0.62, 0.89)
+ Income Category^b	0.77 (0.64, 0.92)
+ Level of Education^c	0.79 (0.66, 0.96)
+ Functional Status^d	0.81 (0.67, 0.98)
+ Healthcare Use^e	0.81 (0.67, 0.99)

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval

^a:

base model covariates include age (continuous, years), sex (male, female), marital status (never married, widowed/divorced/separated, married)

^b:

further adjusted for income (lowest quartile 1 to highest quartile 4)

^c:

further adjusted for level of education (high school or less, some college or Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Graduate or advanced degree)

^d:

further adjusted for No. of ADLs, No of IADLs, hypertension diagnosis, mental health diagnosis, diabetes diagnosis, respiratory illness diagnosis, cardiovascular diagnosis (includes heart failure and myocardial infarction), stroke diagnosis, cancer diagnosis

^e:

further adjusted for within the year before onset No. of ambulatory EM visits and No. of hospitalizations