Childhood Abuse and Cognitive Function in a Large Cohort of Middle-Aged Women.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive function at middle age is of particular public health interest, as it strongly predicts later dementia. Children who have experienced abuse subsequently have worse cognitive function than those who have not. However, it remains unclear whether the association of abuse with cognitive function persists into middle age. In 2014-2016, 14,151 women ages 49-69 years who had previously responded to a childhood abuse questionnaire completed a cognitive battery. In models adjusted for childhood socioeconomic status and head trauma, combined physical, emotional, and sexual abuse was associated with lower scores on both Learning/Working Memory (severe abuse, lower scores similar to that observed in women 4.8 years older in our data) and Psychomotor Speed/Attention (severe abuse, lower score

SUBMITTER: Roberts AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10281011 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature