Sons and parental cognition in mid-life and older adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Prior research suggests a relationship between number of sons and maternal long-term health outcomes, including dementia. We assessed the relationship between having sons and parental cognitive aging. Specifically, we investigated the relationship between having at least 1 son and parental baseline cognition level and rate of cognitive decline, accounting for life course sociodemographic characteristics in a cohort of 13 222 adults aged ≥50 years from the US Health and Retirement Study. We included only participants with at least one child. We further explored whether this relationship varies by parental sex and whether the magnitude of the relationship increases with each additional son. Cognition was assessed biennially for a maximum of nine times as a sum of scores from immediate and de

SUBMITTER: Wolfova K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10103684 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature