DNA methylation-based measures of accelerated biological ageing and the risk of dementia in the oldest-old: a study of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.

BMC Psychiatry · 2020 · PMC7048023 · PMID 32111184

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approached significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In these analyses – where death was not considered – the association between AgeAccelGrim and dementia reached statistical significance in models 2 and 3 ( p < 0.05) and approached significance in model 4 ( p = 0.06).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

The interaction term was to be excluded from subsequent models if it did not reach statistical significance.

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