Relations of Executive Function and Physical Performance in Middle Adulthood: A Prospective Investigation in African American and White Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Previous studies in older adults found robust associations between executive functions (EF) and physical performance, as well as sociodemographic variation in physical performance decline. To examine these associations earlier in the adult lifespan, we investigated relations of EF, race, and sex with age-related physical performance decline during middle adulthood.

Method

Participants were 2,084 urban-dwelling adults (57.2% female; 57.8% African American; 37.3% living in poverty; mean baseline age = 48.1) from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study. Mixed-effects regression was used to examine interactive relations among EF, race, sex, and age (indexing time) with change in dominant and nondominant handgrip strength and lower ex

SUBMITTER: Leibel DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265814 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature