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| The relationship between alcohol consumption, cognitive performance, and daily functioning in an urban sample of older Black Americans | | Author(s) | Hugh C Hendrie, Sujuan Gao, Kathleen S Hall |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 44, no 10, October 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1158-1167 |
| Keywords | Alcoholism ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Black people ; Urban areas ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The negative health and cognitive status effects of heavy alcohol consumption have been well documented, however, the effects of moderate drinking on health and cognitive performance are more controversial. As part of a community prevalence study of dementia, information on alcohol consumption and cognitive performance was collected on 2040 randomly selected black older people in Indianapolis, US. Alcohol consumption was grouped into 4 categories: lifetime abstainers; regular drinkers less than 4 drinks per week; 4-10 drinks per week; and more than 10 drinks per week. Current and past drinkers were analysed separately. Analyses revealed a consistent pattern for both current and past drinkers. There was a small but significant dose effect of drinking for the drinkers, with subjects in the heaviest drinking category having the lowest scores in cognitive tests and the highest scores in scales of daily functioning, indicating more impairment. The scores of abstainers were worse than those of subjects in the lightest drinking category. The findings of the study provide some support for the concept of a J-shaped relationship between cognitive performance and alcohol consumption. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970812213 A |
| Classmark | ETA: C4: CA: DA: 4C: TKE: RK: 7T |
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