Table 2 Demographic information and baseline performance of cognitively declineda and non-declined participants

From: Olfactory discrimination predicts cognitive decline among community-dwelling older adults

Variables

Age

Educ. years b

MMSE

CAMCOG-R

SS-T

SS-D

SS-I

SS-TDI

Non-declined (N=250)

62.59 (±6.98)

13.65 (±3.65)

29.20 (±1.11)

98.63 (±3.28)

7.53 (±2.32)

11.90 (±2.21)

12.62 (±1.91)

31.79 (±4.13)

Declined (N=58)

65.10 (±8.08)

13.22 (±4.25)

28.95 (±1.05)

98.84 (±3. 94)

6.87 (±2.55)

10.80 (±2.86)

12.20 (±2.16)

29.65 (±6.04)

P

0.017*

0.442

0.124

0.664

0.063

0.009*,c

0.153

0.013*,c

  1. Abbreviations: CAMCOG-R, The Revised Cambridge Cognitive Examination; MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; SS-D, Sniffin’ Sticks discrimination; SS-I, Sniffin’ Sticks identification; SS-T, Sniffin’ Sticks threshold; SS-TDI, Sniffin’ Sticks composite score.
  2. aCognitive decline was considered as a score ⩾1 s.d. below baseline performance on CAMCOG-R in the last assessment.
  3. bEducation years.
  4. cEqual variance not assumed.
  5. *P⩽0.05.
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