Associations Between Functional Biological Age and Cognition Among Older Adults in Rural Bangladesh: Comparisons With Chronological Age
| Autor: | Mohammed I Hasan, Katie Palmer, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Åke Wahlin, Ola Sternäng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology
Male Rural Population medicine.medical_specialty Aging Visual Acuity Neuropsychological Tests 03 medical and health sciences Grip strength 0302 clinical medicine Cognition medicine Semantic memory Verbal fluency test Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Episodic memory Geriatric Assessment Aged Community and Home Care Geriatrics Bangladesh Poverty Recall Hearing Tests 05 social sciences Middle Aged Physical Functional Performance Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of aging and health. 31(5) |
| ISSN: | 1552-6887 |
| Popis: | Objectives: We constructed a functional biological age (fBioAge) indicator by using four functional variables: grip strength, forced expiratory lung volume, visual acuity, and hearing. Our aim was to compare how chronological age (ChronAge) and fBioAge are related to cognitive abilities in older adults. Method: We used data from the Poverty and Health in Aging project, Bangladesh. Participants ( N = 400) were 60+ years of age and diagnosed as nondemented. Examined cognitive abilities were four episodic memory measures (including recall and recognition), two verbal fluency indicators, two semantic knowledge, and two processing speed tasks. Results: fBioAge accounted for cognitive variance beyond that explained by ChronAge also after controlling for medical diagnoses and blood markers. Discussion: Compared with ChronAge, fBioAge was a stronger predictor of cognition during a broad part of the old adult span. fBioAge seems, in that respect, to have the potential to become a useful age indicator in future aging studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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