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Table 1 Baseline characteristics according to the incidence of dementia in all participants

From: Development and validation of new screening tool for predicting dementia risk in community-dwelling older Japanese adults

 

Overall

n = 4,298

Participants without dementia incidence

n = 4205

Participants with dementia incidence

n = 93

P-value*

Age (years)

71.9 ± 5.4

71.8 ± 5.3

76.9 ± 6.1

< 0.001

Sex (female, %)

2139 (49.8)

2082 (49.5)

57 (61.3)

0.025

Education (years)

11.4 ± 2.5

11.4 ± 2.5

10.5 ± 2.7

< 0.001

Hypertension (n, %)

2000 (46.5)

1956 (46.5)

44 (47.3)

0.879

Heart disease (n, %)

723 (16.8)

700 (16.6)

23 (24.7)

0.039

Diabetes mellitus (n, %)

582 (13.5)

568 (13.5)

14 (15.1)

0.666

Hyperlipidemia (n, %)

1769 (41.2)

1736 (41.3)

33 (35.5)

0.261

Drinking habit (n, %)

2003 (46.6)

1966 (46.8)

37 (39.8)

0.183

Smoking habit (n, %)

429 (10.0)

419 (10.0)

10 (10.8)

0.802

Slow gait speed (n, %)

398 (9.3)

373 (8.9)

25 (26.9)

< 0.001

Living alone (n, %)

400 (9.3)

388 (9.2)

12 (12.9)

0.228

Physical inactivity (n, %)

1246 (29.0)

1,213 (28.8)

33 (35.5)

0.163

MMSE (score)

26.5 ± 2.4

26.5 ± 2.4

24.9 ± 2.4

< 0.001

  1. The data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation or numbers (%)
  2. MMSE mini-mental state examination
  3. *Based on Student’s t-test for continuous variables and χ2 tests for categorical variables