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Table 3 Association between different types of screentime with brain MRI indices in the UK Biobank Studya

From: Different types of screen time, physical activity, and incident dementia, Parkinson’s disease, depression and multimorbidity status

MRI indices b

Computer use outside of work, hours/day (0 is reference)

TV viewing time, hours/day (0 to 1 is reference)

0.5 to 1

2 to 3

 ≥ 4

2

3

 ≥ 4

White matter hyperintensity volume

 Model 1

-0.055 (-0.080, -0.030) c

-0.019 (-0.049, 0.011)

-0.015 (-0.058, 0.028)

-0.002 (-0.025, 0.020)

0.009 (-0.016, 0.034)

0.026 (0.000, 0.052)

 Model 2

-0.042 (-0.067, -0.017)

-0.015 (-0.045, 0.015)

-0.018 (-0.061, 0.025)

-0.006 (-0.028, 0.017)

-0.004 (-0.029, 0.021)

0.002 (-0.024, 0.029)

Hippocampal volume

 Model 1

0.090 (0.065, 0.115)

0.077 (0.047, 0.107)

0.051 (0.008, 0.094)

-0.020 (-0.042, 0.003)

-0.045 (-0.07, -0.021)

-0.108 (-0.134, -0.082)

 Model 2

0.059 (0.034, 0.084)

0.055 (0.025, 0.085)

0.034 (-0.009, 0.077)

-0.009 (-0.032, 0.013)

-0.022 (-0.047, 0.003)

-0.067 (-0.094, -0.041)

Total brain volume

 Model 1

-0.013 (-0.036, 0.011)

-0.048 (-0.076, -0.020)

-0.107 (-0.148, -0.066)

0.048 (0.026, 0.069)

0.070 (0.047, 0.093)

0.090 (0.065, 0.114)

 Model 2

0.002 (-0.022, 0.026)

-0.022 (-0.050, 0.007)

-0.076 (-0.117, -0.035)

0.034 (0.013, 0.056)

0.052 (0.028, 0.075)

0.072 (0.047, 0.097)

Total white matter volume

 Model 1

-0.022 (-0.049, 0.006)

-0.052 (-0.085, -0.019)

-0.116 (-0.163, -0.069)

0.022 (-0.002, 0.047)

0.036 (0.009, 0.063)

0.039 (0.011, 0.067)

 Model 2

-0.010 (-0.038, 0.017)

-0.036 (-0.069, -0.003)

-0.097 (-0.145, -0.050)

0.010 (-0.015, 0.035)

0.017 (-0.010, 0.044)

0.017 (-0.013, 0.046)

Total gray matter volume

 Model 1

-0.001 (-0.023, 0.021)

-0.029 (-0.055, -0.003)

-0.065 (-0.103, -0.028)

0.054 (0.034, 0.073)

0.076 (0.055, 0.098)

0.104 (0.081, 0.126)

 Model 2

0.012 (-0.010, 0.033)

-0.003 (-0.029, 0.023)

-0.034 (-0.071, 0.003)

0.044 (0.025, 0.063)

0.065 (0.043, 0.086)

0.095 (0.073, 0.118)

  1. Model 1 was adjusted for age, sex, and body mass index
  2. Model 2 was additionally adjusted for race, smoking status, alcohol drinking status, education level, visiting friends, living alone, physical activity, Townson depretive index, healthy dietary score, family history of disease (including dementia, PD, and depression), hypertension, diabetes, and computer using time in TV analysis or TV viewing time in computer analysis
  3. aObtained by using linear regression model
  4. bMRI indices were transformed into Z-scores
  5. cBeta coefficients (β) (95% confidence interval) (all such values)