The association between metabolic syndrome components and cognitive function in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: the first wave result of a cohort study

Table 5 The associations of abdominal obesity and cognitive impairment stratified by sex

	Men (n = 223)		Women (n = 344)
	aOR (95% CI)	p	aOR (95% CI)	p
Age	1.01 (0.94, 1.08)	0.84	0.98 (0.93, 1.04)	0.59
Education level
Below high school			ref
College and graduate school	0.66 (0.38, 1.14)	0.14	0.63 (0.42, 0.95)	0.03
Marital status
Married			ref
Single, widowed, divorced, and other	0.58 (0.20, 1.65)	0.31	1.62 (1.11, 2.38)	0.01
Monthly income
No income			ref
Have income	0.82 (0.40, 1.70)	0.60	1.02 (0.61, 1.71)	0.93
IADL score	0.75 (0.61, 0.93)	0.008	0.72 (0.59, 0.88)	0.001
GDS-15 score	1.68 (1.32, 2.13)	< 0.001	1.57 (1.35, 1.84)	< 0.001
Stroke history	2.33 (0.43, 12.5)	0.33	1.25 (0.22, 7.04)	0.80
Abdominal obesity	0.84 (0.46, 1.53)	0.58	0.62 (0.42, 0.93)	0.02

Cognitive impairment was screened as AD-8 ≥ 2. Cognitive impairment indicated by MoCA-T score was not significantly associated with abdominal obesity (Table 4), and therefore was not included in this analysis
Abbreviations: aOR, adjusted odds ratio; IADL, instrumental activities of daily living; GDS-15, Geriatric Depression Scale-15; AD-8, The Eight-item Informant Interview to Differentiate Aging and Dementia

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