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Movement in mind
— the relationship of exercise with cognitive status for older adults in the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (SNAC) | | Author(s) | Magnus Lindwall, Mikael Rennemark, Tomas Berggren |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 2, March 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp 212-220 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Cognitive processes ; Older men ; Older women ; Correlation ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | 813 participants from the Swedish National Study on Ageing and Care (SNAC) in age cohorts from 60 to 96 years completed a wide range of cognitive function tests, the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) and survey questions concerning exercise behaviour and exercise change with light or strenuous intensity. ANCOVA (analysis of covariance), controlling for age, education, depression, functional status and co-morbidity, demonstrated a main effect for light exercise, but not for strenuous exercise, on five of the six cognitive tests and the MMSE for men but not for women. A negative change in exercise status was associated with lower MMSE scores for men but not for women. Individual exercising with light intensity several times a week had the highest cognitive test and MMSE scores and the inactive group had the lowest scores. The results of the study may contribute to increased knowledge in the exercise-mental health relationship in older people and spawn new research specifically on gender differences in this relationship. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080512206 A |
| Classmark | CEA: DA: BC: BD: 49: 76P |
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