Associations of Modifiable Behavioral Risk Factor Combinations at 65 to 74 Years Old With Cognitive Health Span for 20 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Behavioral risk factors for dementia tend to co-occur and interrelate, especially poor diet, physical inactivity, sleep disturbances, and depression. Having multiple of these modifiable behavioral risk factors (MBRFs) may predict a particularly shortened cognitive health span and therefore may signal high-risk status/high intervention need.

Methods

These secondary analyses of data from the Cardiovascular Health Study included 3149 participants aged 65 to 74 years (mean [standard deviation {SD}] age = 69.5 [2.5] years; 59.6% female). MBRF exposures were self-reports regarding a) diet, b) activity, c) sleep, and d) depression symptoms. We primarily analyzed MBRF counts. For up to 26 years of follow-up, we assessed the a) number of remaining cognitively healthy life-y

SUBMITTER: Smagula SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9437131 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature