Gender Selectively Mediates the Association Between Sex and Memory in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Sex and gender are important topics of increasing interest in aging and dementia research. Few studies have jointly examined sex (as a biological attribute) and gender (as a sociocultural and behavioral characteristic) within a single study. We explored a novel data mining approach to include both sex and gender as potentially related influences in memory aging research.

Research design and methods

Participants were 746 cognitively normal older adults from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. First, we adapted the Gender Outcomes INternational Group: To Further Well-being Development (GOING-FWD) framework-which is informed by gender dimensions of the Women's Health Research Network-to identify, extract, and operationalize gender-related variables

SUBMITTER: Bohn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11565197 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature