Mueller, K., D. Norton, R. Koscik, M. Morris, E. Jonaitis, L. Clark, T. Fields, S. Allison, S. Berman, S. Kraning, M. Zuelsdorff, O. Okonkwo, N. Chin, C. Carlsson, B. Bendlin, B. Hermann, and S. Johnson. “Self-Reported Health Behaviors and Longitudinal Cognitive Performance in Late Middle Age: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention.”. PloS One, Vol. 15, no. 4, 2020, p. e0221985.
Studies have suggested associations between self-reported engagement in health behaviors and reduced risk of cognitive decline. Most studies explore these relationships using one health behavior, often cross-sectionally or with dementia as the outcome. In this study, we explored whether several individual self-reported health behaviors were associated with cognitive decline when considered simultaneously, using data from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP), an Alzheimer’s disease risk-enriched cohort who were non-demented and in late midlife at baseline.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221985
PubMed: 32324741