Associations of the metabolic syndrome and its components with cognitive impairment in older adults

BMC Geriatrics

Table 5 Number of MetS components and odds of cognitive impairment

Number of components	Model 1		Model 2
Number of components	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p
0	1.00 (Reference)^a	–	1.00 (Reference)^b	–
1	0.36 (0.11, 1.15)^a	0.084	0.29 (0.09, 0.95)^b	0.041
2	1.02 (0.38, 2.77)^a	0.965	0.93 (0.34, 2.52)^b	0.878
3	0.94 (0.32, 2.77)^a	0.902	0.76 (0.26, 2.28)^b	0.629
4/5^c	1.23 (0.40, 3.77)^a	0.713	0.99 (0.31, 3.12)^b	0.982
Number of components (continuous)^d	1.16 (0.92, 1.45)	0.212	1.11 (0.88, 1.41)	0.387

Model 1: adjusted for age, sex and smoking (N = 202). Model 2: adjusted for age, sex, smoking, CHD, TIA, stroke (N = 200)
^asingle model; ^bsingle model
^cdue to small N in each, groups with 4 or 5 components were merged in this analysis
^drange 0 to 5

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