Body mass index, performance on activities of daily living and cognition: analysis in two different populations

Borda, Miguel Germán; Venegas-Sanabria, Luis Carlos; Garcia-Cifuentes, Elkin; Gomez, Ronald Camilo; Cano-Gutierrez, Carlos Alberto; Tovar-Rios, Diego Alejandro; Aarsland, Vera; Khalifa, Khadija; Jaramillo-Jimenez, Alberto; Aarsland, Dag; Soennesyn, Hogne

doi:10.1186/s12877-021-02127-8

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Association between BMI categories with function (BADL/IADL) and cognition in Colombian population

From: Body mass index, performance on activities of daily living and cognition: analysis in two different populations

Model 1	BADL			IADL			MMSE < 24
Model 1	Estimation	Standard Error	p value	Estimation	Standard Error	p value	Estimation	Standard Error	p value
Intercept	0.06	0.11	0.581	−3.77	0.20	<.001	−6.16	0.15	<.001
Body Mass Index
Underweight	0.13	0.07	0.047	0.21	0.09	0.019	0.48	0.09	<.001
Overweight	−0.05	0.03	0.192	− 0.19	0.05	<.001	− 0.35	0.04	<.001
Obese	0.68	0.03	<.001	−0.05	0.05	0.349	0.08	0.04	0.054
Gender
Female	0.12	0.03	<.001	− 0.09	0.04	0.038	−0.31	0.03	<.001
Education
< High school	− 0.02	0.03	0.504	−0.31	0.05	<.001	−1.20	0.04	<.001
High school	0.00	0.04	0.984	−0.57	0.10	<.001	−2.32	0.07	<.001
> High school	0.16	0.07	0.026	−0.22	0.13	0.105	−1.78	0.10	<.001
Comorbidities	0.08	0.01	<.001	0.04	0.01	0.005	−0.01	0.01	0.352
Age	0.03	0.00	<.001	0.05	0.00	<.001	0.09	0.00	<.001
Model 2
Intercept	0.79	0.11	<.001	−3.02	0.21	<.001	−4.89	0.17	<.001
Body Mass Index
Underweight	0.07	0.06	0.288	0.17	0.09	0.049	0.42	0.09	<.001
Overweight	−0.03	0.03	0.424	− 0.18	0.05	<.001	− 0.33	0.04	<.001
Obese	0.55	0.03	<.001	−0.08	0.05	0.126	0.01	0.04	0.739
Gender
Female	0.21	0.03	<.001	0.05	0.04	0.258	−0.13	0.04	0.001
Education
< High school	−0.02	0.02	0.539	−0.31	0.04	<.001	−1.20	0.04	<.001
High school	0.03	0.04	0.504	−0.56	0.10	<.001	−2.31	0.07	<.001
> High school	0.14	0.07	0.041	−0.24	0.13	0.074	−1.77	0.10	<.001
Comorbidities	0.07	0.01	<.001	0.03	0.01	0.035	−0.02	0.02	0.147
Age	0.02	0.00	<.001	0.05	0.00	<.001	0.08	0.00	<.001
Smoke
Past-smoker	−0.07	0.02	0.002	−0.11	0.03	0.001	−0.06	0.04	0.130
Current-smoker	−0.18	0.05	<.001	−0.03	0.05	0.496	0.21	0.06	<.001
Exercise
Yes	−0.57	0.03	<.001	−0.53	0.03	<.001	−0.63	0.04	<.001
Marital status
Married or living with	−0.04	0.02	0.130	−0.05	0.03	0.144	−0.24	0.04	<.001
Weight status
Lost	− 0.09	0.05	0.080	−0.31	0.07	<.001	−1.03	0.09	<.001

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