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Cognitive decline and Japanese culture in a cohort of older Japanese Americans in King County, WA
— the Kame Project | | Author(s) | Amy Borenstein Graves, Lakshminarayan Rajaram, James D Bowen |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 3, May 1999 |
| Pages | pp S154-161 |
| Keywords | Mental ageing ; Dementia ; Japan ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in studies of Japanese show generally lower rates when compared with those of Caucasians. The authors hypothesised that among a cohort of Japanese Americans in Washington State, lifestyle differences would act to modify progression of the Alzheimer pathologic process over many years, resulting in a slower cognitive decline among those whose lifestyle is more characteristically Japanese. 1,836 non-demented people were screened with the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI); 1,604 were rescreened two years later. Baseline questions included migration status, exposure to Japanese culture in early life and its maintenance in adulthood, and risk factors. In logistic regression, variables relating to reading, writing and speaking Japanese, being born or having lived in Japan in early life, and having only or mostly Japanese friends were inversely associated with cognitive decline. Lower cardiovascular disease rates among Japanese may also predispose them to lower rates of cognitive decline. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826232 A |
| Classmark | D6: EA: 7DT: F: DA: 4C: 7T |
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