Titre : | Changes in the Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment Among Older Americans, 1993-2004 : Overall Trends and Differences by Race/Ethnicity. (2011) |
Auteurs : | SHEFFIELD (Kristin-M) : USA. Department of Surgery. University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston. TX. ; KRISTEN PEEK (M.) : USA. Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health. Division of Sociomedical Sciences. University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston. TX. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 174, n° 3, 2011) |
Pagination : | 274-283 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Changement ; Prévalence ; Personne âgée ; Tendance séculaire ; Race ; Ethnie ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Epidémiologie ; Homme ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS IR0xo78G. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The authors used data from 6 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to evaluate changes in the prevalence of cognitive impairment among adults 70 years of age or older from 1993 to 2004. Having sampling weights for each wave enabled the authors to create merged waves that represented cross-sections of the community-dwelling older population for that year. Logistic regression analyses with year as the predictor were used to estimate trends and determine the contribution of sociodemographic and health status variables to decreasing trends in the prevalence of cognitive impairment over time (score |