TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging in cognitive activities, aging, and mild cognitive impairment
T2 - A population-based study
AU - Geda, Yonas E.
AU - Topazian, Hillary M.
AU - Lewis, Robert A.
AU - Roberts, Rosebud O.
AU - Knopman, David S.
AU - Pankratz, V. Shane
AU - Christianson, Teresa J.H.Christianson
AU - Boeve, Bradley F.
AU - Tangalos, Eric G.
AU - Ivnik, Robert J.
AU - Petersen, Ronald C.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The authors investigated whether engaging in cognitive activities is associated with aging and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a cross-sectional study derived from an ongoing populationbased study of normal cognitive aging and MCI in Olmsted County, MN. A random sample of 1,321 study participants ages 70 to 89 (N_1,124 cognitively normal persons, and N_197 subjects with MCI) were interviewed about the frequency of cognitive activities carried out in late life (within 1 year of the date of interview). Computer activities; craft activities, such as knitting, quilting, etc.; playing games; and reading books were associated with decreased odds of having MCI. Social activities, such as traveling, were marginally significant. Even though the point-estimates for reading magazines, playing music, artistic activities, and group activities were associated with reduced odds of having MCI, none of these reached statistical significance. The equally high prevalence of reading newspapers in both groups yielded no significant between-group difference,
AB - The authors investigated whether engaging in cognitive activities is associated with aging and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a cross-sectional study derived from an ongoing populationbased study of normal cognitive aging and MCI in Olmsted County, MN. A random sample of 1,321 study participants ages 70 to 89 (N_1,124 cognitively normal persons, and N_197 subjects with MCI) were interviewed about the frequency of cognitive activities carried out in late life (within 1 year of the date of interview). Computer activities; craft activities, such as knitting, quilting, etc.; playing games; and reading books were associated with decreased odds of having MCI. Social activities, such as traveling, were marginally significant. Even though the point-estimates for reading magazines, playing music, artistic activities, and group activities were associated with reduced odds of having MCI, none of these reached statistical significance. The equally high prevalence of reading newspapers in both groups yielded no significant between-group difference,
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U2 - 10.1176/jnp.23.2.jnp149
DO - 10.1176/jnp.23.2.jnp149
M3 - Article
C2 - 21677242
AN - SCOPUS:85047689465
SN - 0895-0172
VL - 23
SP - 149
EP - 154
JO - Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
JF - Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
IS - 2
ER -