{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"submitter":["Breton J"],"funding":["NIBIB NIH HHS","NICHD NIH HHS","NIA NIH HHS"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>The mechanisms linking economic resources to cognition in older ethnic/racial minorities remain unclear. This study examined whether depressive symptoms and chronic stress mediate the link between income and both episodic memory and executive functioning in Black and Latino older adults.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed data from 579 Black and 1,056 Latino older participants in the Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities. Mediation models estimated the total, direct, and indirect effects of income on memory and executive functioning through depressive symptoms and chronic stress.<h4>Results</h4>Among Black adults, depressive symptoms significantly mediated the association between income and both memory (B = 0.025, CI [0.007, 0.052]) and executive functioning (B = 0.036"],"journal":["The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences"],"pagination":["gbag011"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12857763"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Depressive Symptoms but not Chronic Stress Mediate the Link Between Income and Cognition in Latino and Black Older Adults: Findings from the Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities."],"pmcid":["PMC12857763"],"funding_grant_id":["P41 EB015922","R21 AG078846","L30 AG074161","P2C HD042849","R01 AG054073","U19 AG078109","P30 AG066614","R01 AG070862","R01 AG058533"],"pubmed_authors":["Petersen M","Vardarajan B","Zhang F","Johnson L","Lee J","Cheema A","Barber R","Ances B","Vig R","Mason D","Mielke M","Shi Y","McColl R","Rivera Mindt M","Babulal G","Hill C","King K","Borzage M","Okonkwo O","Large S","Llibre-Guerra J","Munoz E","R Hall J","Mapstone M","Christian B","Kind A","Palmer R","Barnes L","HABS-HD Study Team","Rissman R","Braskie M","Nandy R","Breton J","Phillips N","Donohue M","Zhou Z","Raman R","Cohen A","O'Bryant SE","Yaffe K","Toga A","Vintimilla R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Depressive Symptoms but not Chronic Stress Mediate the Link Between Income and Cognition in Latino and Black Older Adults: Findings from the Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>The mechanisms linking economic resources to cognition in older ethnic/racial minorities remain unclear. This study examined whether depressive symptoms and chronic stress mediate the link between income and both episodic memory and executive functioning in Black and Latino older adults.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed data from 579 Black and 1,056 Latino older participants in the Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities. Mediation models estimated the total, direct, and indirect effects of income on memory and executive functioning through depressive symptoms and chronic stress.<h4>Results</h4>Among Black adults, depressive symptoms significantly mediated the association between income and both memory (B = 0.025, CI [0.007, 0.052]) and executive functioning (B = 0.036","dates":{"release":"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2026 Jan","modification":"2026-06-11T05:32:27.132Z","creation":"2026-06-11T03:07:55.081Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12857763","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41609409"],"doi":["10.1093/geronb/gbag011"]}}