Longitudinal Associations of US Acculturation With Cognitive Performance, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia.

ABSTRACT: US Latinos, a growing, aging population, are disproportionately burdened by cognitive decline and dementia. Identification of modifiable risk factors is needed for interventions aimed at reducing risk. Broad sociocultural context may illuminate complex etiology among culturally diverse Latinos. Among 1,418 older (≥60 years), low-socioeconomic position (SEP) Latinos (predominantly of Mexican descent) in Sacramento, California, we examined whether US acculturation was associated with cognitive performance, cognitive decline, and dementia/ cognitive impairment without dementia over a 10-year period and whether education modified the associations (Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging, 1998-2008). Analyses used linear mixed models, competing-risk regression, and inverse probability of censorin

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Miller EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7604518 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature