Predictors of Optimal Cognitive Aging in 80+ Women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Independent predictors of preserved cognitive functioning and factors associated with maintaining high preserved cognitive function in women ≥ 80 years remain elusive.

Methods

Two thousand two hundred twenty-eight women with a mean age of 85 years who participated in the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study were classified as cognitively normal (n = 1,905, 85.5%), mild cognitive impairment (n = 88, 3.9%), dementia (n = 121, 5.4%) or other cognitive impairment (n = 114, n = 5.1%) by central adjudication. Global cognitive functioning was assessed using telephone interview for cognitive status-modified in those women who did not meet cognitive impairment criteria. Differences between women grouped by cognitive status with respect to each potential risk factor were

SUBMITTER: Goveas JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4759985 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature