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Table 5 Associations between abdominal circumference across adulthood, and global WMHV, β-amyloid status and brain volumes at age 71

From: Investigating the relationship between BMI across adulthood and late life brain pathologies

 

Relative change in WMHV (95% CI)

β-amyloid adjusted OR (95% CI)

WBV β coefficient (95% CI)

Mean HV β coefficient (95% CI)

Model 3

Model 3

Model 3

Model 3

36 years

WMHV: Model 3: n = 409

Amyloid: Model 3: n = 412

WBV/HV: Model 3: n = 401

0.91 (0.81, 1.02)

1.08 (0.80, 1.47)

4.0 (−1.0, 9.1)

0.018 (− 0.014, 0.051)

43 years

WMHV: Model 3: n = 425

Amyloid: Model 3: n = 431

WBV/HV: Model 3: n = 417

0.95 (0.84, 1.06)

0.91 (0.66, 1.25)

2.5 (− 2.7, 7.7)

0.011 (− 0.022, 0.044)

53 years

WMHV: Model 3: n = 437

Amyloid: Model 3: n = 442

WBV/HV: Model 3: n = 429

0.93 (0.84, 1.03)

0.88 (0.67, 1.15)

1.5 (− 2.8, 5.9)

0.003 (− 0.026, 0.032)

60/64 years

WMHV: Model 3: n = 448

Amyloid: Model 3: n = 454

WBV/HV: Model 3: n = 440

0.95 (0.87, 1.05)

0.80 (0.62, 1.03)

0.0 (− 4.0, 4.0)

0.007 (− 0.019, 0.033)

69 years

WMHV: Model 3: n = 447

Amyloid: Model 3: n = 449

WBV/HV: Model 3: n = 439

0.97 (0.88, 1.06)

0.83 (0.65, 1.05)

− 1.8 (− 5.5, 2.0)

0.004 (− 0.020, 0.029)

  1. All coefficients or ORs quoted are per 10 cm increase in AC. Associations with WMHV were investigated using GLM, amyloid status using logistic regression and brain volumes using linear regression models. 95% confidence intervals are also shown. Associations significant at p < 0.05 are highlighted in bold. Model numbers are stated in the left-hand column. Results are similar across models and therefore only results for fully-adjusted model 3 are presented. Model 3 analyses adjust for sex, TIV, scanning age, contemporaneous SBP, DM, hypercholesterolaemia, adult SEP, smoking (WMHV models) and also β-amyloid status and global WMHV (brain volume analyses). β-amyloid model 3 analyses adjust for sex, contemporaneous SBP and APOE-ε4 status. AC abdominal circumference, CI confidence interval, DM diabetes mellitus, GLM generalised linear model, SBP systolic blood pressure, SEP socioeconomic position, TIV total intracranial volume, WMHV white matter hyperintensity volume