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Table 3 Variables predicting AD in addition to < −2 SD on one episodic memory test

From: Predicting Alzheimer's disease development: a comparison of cognitive criteria and associated neuroimaging biomarkers

  

Block by block

Final model

Predictor

Nagelkerke’s R 2

Odds ratio

Confidence interval

p

Odds ratio

Confidence interval

p

Block 1: main predictors

.380

      

Age

 

1.017

1.0, 1.1

0.403

0.992

0.9, 1.0

0.735

Education

 

0.981

0.9, 1.1

0.668

0.992

0.9, 1.1

0.877

Sex

 

0.843

0.5, 1.4

0.528

0.868

0.5, 1.6

0.639

Mini-mental state exam

 

0.672

0.6, 0.8

<0.001

0.756

0.6, 0.9

0.001

< −2 SD on one test

 

7.652

4.4, 13.3

<0.001

4.722

2.6, 8.7

<0.001

Block 2: non-memory tests

.416

      

Category fluency

 

0.850

0.7, 1.1

0.211

0.859

0.7, 1.1

0.268

Boston naming test

 

0.923

0.9, 1.0

0.052

0.925

0.9, 1.0

0.071

Trails B/A ratio

 

1.367

1.1, 1.8

0.017

1.275

1.0, 1.7

0.089

Block 3: biomarkers

.469

      

Apolipoprotein E ε4

      

0.035

Apolipoprotein E ε4 (1 allele)

    

1.748

1.0, 3.1

0.060

Apolipoprotein E ε4 (2 alleles)

    

2.910

1.2, 7.1

0.019

Total hippocampal volume

    

0.018

0.0, 2.7

0.115

Brain parenchymal fraction

    

0.000

0.0, 4.7

0.078

White matter hyperintensity

    

1.029

0.9, 1.1

0.609

Ventricular cerebrospinal fluid

    

1.098

0.9, 1.4

0.382