Dual decline in subjective gait speed and domain-specific cognition is associated with higher risk of incident dementia in older Japanese adults : A 15-year age-specific cohort study

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OBJECTIVES: Dual decline in gait speed and cognition has been found to have higher dementia risk than no decline or pure decline. However, evidence from the Asian population is lacking. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association of dual decline from age 65 to 70 years with late-life dementia in older Japanese adults with different personal characteristics.

METHODS: Data were collected from an age-specific cohort study conducted in 482 Japanese 65-year-old adults. We investigated participant demographics, medical histories, lifestyles, subjective gait speed, and cognition at both 64/65 and 70/71 years old, and confirmed dementia until age of 85 years. Cox proportion hazard models were used to estimate the risk of dementia, with adjustments for covariates, and death was treated as a competing risk.

RESULTS: After a mean follow-up period of 12.5-years, 111 participants developed dementia. Older adults with dual decline are more likely to have hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and smoking habits. And we found that dual decline in gait speed and domain-specific cognition was associated with a higher risk of dementia compared with no decline in most cognitive tests, with the highest risk observed for gait speed combined with memory (sub-distribution hazard ratio:3.89, 95 %, confidence intervals: [1.68-9.01]). However, significant differences only existed in men after stratification by sex.

CONCLUSIONS: A dual decline in subjective gait speed and cognition may serve as a robust predictor of dementia over a decade prior to its onset, particularly in men. These findings highlighted the importance of screening for dual decline at an early age.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:117

Enthalten in:

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics - 117(2024) vom: 23. Jan., Seite 105254

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hao, Wen [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Yi-Fan [VerfasserIn]
Kimura, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Ukawa, Shigekazu [VerfasserIn]
Ohira, Hideki [VerfasserIn]
Okabayashi, Satoe [VerfasserIn]
Wakai, Kenji [VerfasserIn]
Ando, Masahiko [VerfasserIn]
Tamakoshi, Akiko [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aged
Cognition
Dementia
Gait speed
Journal Article
Memory
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 06.12.2023

Date Revised 24.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.archger.2023.105254

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364440775