Risk of Dementia Differs Across Lifestyle Engagement Subgroups: A Latent Class and Time-to-Event Analysis in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Better understanding of the lifestyle activities shared among older adult subgroups may inform further health behavioral interventions that can be deployed at the group or community level. We applied latent class analysis to characterize qualitatively distinct lifestyle engagement groups, examined their differential risk of incident dementia, and compared their predictive utility to traditional activity frequency and variety scores.

Method

Participants were from the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study (N = 3,068, mean age = 78.5). Lifestyle activities were measured at baseline using the Lifestyle Activity Questionnaire. All-cause dementia was screened every 6 months and cases were clinically adjudicated. Median follow-up was 6 years. Time to dementia was assessed us

SUBMITTER: Moored KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9071387 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature