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P4‐373: IMPACT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON COGNITION IN OLDER MEXICAN AMERICANS WITH DIABETES
Author(s) -
Large Stephanie E.,
Johnson Leigh Ann,
O'Jile Judith,
Moss Kamiah,
Hall James R.,
O'Bryant Sid
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.4044
Subject(s) - physical activity , medicine , cognition , diabetes mellitus , gerontology , logical address , cognitive decline , mexican americans , psychology , physical therapy , dementia , endocrinology , psychiatry , disease , ethnic group , sociology , physical address , computer science , anthropology , programming language , overlay
of education. In a stepwise model including both education and age, this association was only explained by education (b1⁄4 1.7, p< 0.001), meaning that for every two years of education, a three points higher total score of the associative test would be expected. Conclusions: The association between years of education and associative memory testing could be explained by adults with higher education having access to better strategic processes, which provides them with resiliency in regards to age-related associative memory deficits. The absence of such associations in the RAVLTmay indicate that, in healthy older adults, non-associative memory is less affected by the effects of education and age. This results should be replicated on larger samples to ascertain the validity of these results.