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Table 2 Association Between Sex-specific Dietary Patterns, Baseline Cognition, and Cognitive Change Over 3 Years

From: Sex differences in the relationship between dietary pattern adherence and cognitive function among older adults: findings from the NuAge study

	Unadjusted			Adjusted ^a
	β	SE	p-value	β	SE	p-value
Women ^b
Time	−0.47	0.06	< 0.001	− 0.48	0.06	< 0.001
Prudent Diet	0.65	0.23	0.004	0.40	0.26	0.12
Prudent Diet × Time	−0.05	0.06	0.35	−0.03	0.06	0.60
Western Diet	−0.36	0.23	0.11	−0.31	0.27	0.26
Western Diet × Time	−0.06	0.06	0.26	−0.08	0.06	0.16
Men
Time	−0.63	0.07	< 0.001	−0.64	0.07	< 0.001
Prudent Diet	0.53	0.26	0.04	0.31	0.26	0.22
Prudent Diet × Time	0.04	0.07	0.55	0.04	0.07	0.54
Western Diet	−0.71	0.25	0.005	−0.65	0.29	0.02
Western Diet × Time	−0.08	0.07	0.23	−0.08	0.07	0.21

^a Adjusted for age, education (< 12, ≥12 years), energy intake in kcal, BMI, diabetes, and hypertension; ^b Additionally adjusted for estrogen past or current estrogen use in women

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