Association between cognitive declines and disability in activities of daily living in older adults with COPD: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between disability and domain-specific cognitive function in older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Design

Cross-sectional analyses combined with retrospective longitudinal analyses.

Setting

We included 450 communities in China.

Participants

In this study, 1022 (mean age: 68.6±6.3; 612 males) and 152 (mean age: 67.0±5.2; 83 males) older adults with COPD from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included in a cross-sectional multivariate linear regression analysis and a longitudinal logistic regression analysis, respectively.

Outcome measures

Disability was determined by the difficulty or inability to complete 1 of the 12 activity items in basic activit

SUBMITTER: Gong B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7594365 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature