Journal article
Cognitive Function and Changes in Cognitive Function as Predictors of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, Vol.73(6), pp.779-785
05/09/2018
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glx138
PMCID: PMC5946937
PMID: 28977360
Abstract
Cognitive impairment and decline may signal the increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). We examined associations of global cognitive function, as measured by the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS) and changes in 3MS over time, with incident CVD, individual CVD outcomes, CVD death, and all-cause mortality.
A total of 5,596 women (≥ 60) from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study free of CVD at baseline were followed for an average of 7.1 years. The 3MS was measured at baseline and annually thereafter. Cox proportional hazards regressions were used to model associations between baseline 3MS and changes in 3MS and time to events.
In the fully-adjusted models for every 5-point lower baseline 3MS score, the risk was 12% greater for incident CVD, 37% for HF, 35% for CVD death, and 24% for all-cause mortality. No significant relationships were found for coronary heart disease (CHD), angina, stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA), or coronary revascularization. When change in 3MS was added as a time-varying covariate in the fully-adjusted models, for every 1-point/year greater decline in 3MS, the risk was 4% greater for incident CVD, 10% for CHD, 9% for Stroke/TIA, 17% for CVD death, and 13% for all-cause mortality.
In older women free of prevalent CVD at baseline, lower baseline global cognitive function or decline in global cognitive function over time, increased risk of incident CVD, CVD death, and all-cause mortality.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cognitive Function and Changes in Cognitive Function as Predictors of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study
- Creators
- Xiaoyan Leng - Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North CarolinaMark A Espeland - Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North CarolinaJoAnn E Manson - Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsMarcia L Stefanick - Center for Disease Prevention Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaEmily W Gower - Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillKathleen M Hayden - Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North CarolinaMarian C Limacher - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, GainesvilleLeslie Vaughan - Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North CarolinaJennifer Robinson - Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of MedicineRobert Wallace - Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of MedicineSylvia Wassertheil-Smoller - Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New YorkKristine Yaffe - Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Psychiatry and Neurology, University of California, San FranciscoSally A Shumaker - Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, Vol.73(6), pp.779-785
- DOI
- 10.1093/gerona/glx138
- PMID
- 28977360
- PMCID
- PMC5946937
- NLM abbreviation
- J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
- ISSN
- 1079-5006
- eISSN
- 1758-535X
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- HHSN268201100046C / NHLBI NIH HHS HHSN268201100001C / WHI NIH HHS HHSN271201100004C / NIA NIH HHS P30 AG049638 / NIA NIH HHS HHSN268201100002C / WHI NIH HHS P30 DK020541 / NIDDK NIH HHS HHSN268201100003C / WHI NIH HHS HHSN268201100004C / WHI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/09/2018
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983995042102771
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