Open AccessBlood Pressure and Memory
Author(s) -
Anran Liu,
Zhaowen Sun,
Eric McDade,
Tiffany F. Hughes,
Mary Ganguli,
Chung Chou H. Chang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.213
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1546-4156
pISSN - 0893-0341
DOI - 10.1097/wad.0000000000000346
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , population , cohort , cardiology , mixed model , cognition , endocrinology , mathematics , statistics , psychiatry , environmental health
Linear models cannot capture nonlinear associations when the relationships between cognition and risk factors vary across risk levels. We demonstrate a method of modelling nonlinear associations using the example of blood pressure (BP) and memory.