The mediating role of socioeconomic status on the relationship between pregnancy history and later-life cognition.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The association of pregnancy with later-life cognition is not well understood. We examined whether full-term and incomplete pregnancies were associated with cognition in a sample of postmenopausal women, and whether socioeconomic status (SES) factors mediated these relationships.

Methods

A total of 1016 cognitively normal women from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were examined. Cognitive measures included the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST), Animal Fluency (AF) and the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) Word Learning (CERAD-WL) and Delayed Recall (CERAD-DR) tasks. Analyses examined the relationship between the number of term and incomplete pregnancies with cognitive performance, as well as the med

SUBMITTER: Giudicessi AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9926890 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature