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The Test Your Memory cognitive screening tool
— sociodemographic and cardiometabolic risk correlates in a population-based study of older British men | | Author(s) | Efstathios Papachristou, Sheena E Ramsay, Olia Papacosta |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 31, no 6, June 2016 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, June 2016 |
| Pages | pp 666-675 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Memory disorders ; Older men ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Screening ; Instruments ; Socio-economic groups [elderly] ; Cardiovascular diseases ; At risk. |
| Annotation | This study aimed to examine the association of Test Your Memory (TYM)-defined cognitive impairment groups with known sociodemographic and cardiometabolic correlates of cognitive impairment in a population-based study of older men. Participants were members of the British Regional Heart Study, a cohort across 24 British towns initiated in 1978-1980. Data stemmed from 1570 British men examined in 2010-2012, aged 71-92 years. Sociodemographic and cardiometabolic factors were compared between participants defined as having TYM scores in the normal cognitive ageing, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and severe cognitive impairment (SCI) groups, defined as 46 or more (45 if 80 years of age or over), 33 or more and under 33, respectively. Among 1570 men, 636 (41%) were classified in the MCI and 133 (8%) in the SCI groups. Compared with participants in the normal cognitive ageing category, individuals with SCI were characterised primarily by lower socio-economic position, slower average walking speed, mobility problems, poorer self-reported overall health, obesity and impaired lung function. A similar albeit slightly weaker pattern was observed for participants with MCI. Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors as well as adiposity measures, lung function and poor overall health are associated with cognitive impairments in late life. The correlates of cognitive abilities in the MCI and SCI groups, as defined by the TYM, resemble the risk profile for MCI and Alzheimer's disease outlined in current epidemiological models. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-161025201 A |
| Classmark | E4: EH: BC: DB: 3V: YW4: F:T4: CQ: CA3 |
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