Lifecourse Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Performance Among Midlife Latina Women in a California Agricultural Region.

Studies rigorously evaluating the relationship between time-varying lifecourse socio-economic status (SES) and cognitive aging primarily focus on non-Hispanic White adults with relatively high SES. We used data from the CHAMACOS Maternal Cognition Study (2022-2024), which included middle-aged, primarily Latina women who experienced relatively low lifecourse SES (n = 519). Participants provided information on early childhood (parental education), mid to late childhood (respondent education), and midlife SES (current poverty level), and completed the SOL-INCA neurocognitive assessment, yielding global and domain-specific cognitive performance z-scores.

Persistent organochlorine pesticides and cardiometabolic outcomes among middle-aged Latina women in a California agricultural community: The CHAMACOS Maternal Cognition Study.

Objective: Environmental exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds is hypothesized to increase risk of cardiovascular disease through effects on obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance. We examined the relationship between serum concentrations of persistent organochlorine pesticides and biologic markers of inflammation and cardiometabolic disease, measured over a decade later, in a cohort of middle-aged and primarily immigrant Latina women living in an underserved agricultural community in California.

Material And Methods: We used data from the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas-Maternal Cognition Study (CHAMACOS-MCS).

Knowledge, perceptions, and feelings associated with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: a qualitative study among middle-aged latinas residing in an underserved agricultural community in California.

Background: Middle age is increasingly acknowledged as a critical window for prevention of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) since research has shown that AD develops in the course of 20-30 years (1) but we know very little about middle-aged individuals' perspectives on ADRD. Knowledge gaps are particularly large for Latinas living in regions typically underrepresented in ADRD research, such as rural and/or agricultural regions. This is important given that over the next 40 years Latinos are projected to have the largest increase in ADRD cases in the U.

Residential proximity to agricultural pesticide use and cardiovascular disease risk factors among adult Latina women in California's Salinas Valley.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. There is limited evidence that exposure to current-use pesticides may contribute to cardiovascular disease risk. We examined the association between residential proximity to the application of agricultural pesticides and cardiovascular risk factors among 484 adult women in the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) Study, a cohort based in an agricultural region of California.

Resiliency and Barriers to Successful Aging Among Middle-Aged Mexican Immigrants Residing in a Rural Agricultural Community.

Objectives: The Latino population is one of the largest, most diverse, and fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States. Although Latinos enjoy longer life spans and reduced mortality risk relative to non-Hispanic Whites, they have higher rates of chronic health conditions such as diabetes and dementia and live more of their older years with poor health and disability. Such inequities point to the need for this research focused on examining resiliency strategies and barriers to successful aging among various U.

Definitions of successful aging among middle-aged Latinas residing in a rural agricultural community.

Introduction: Latinos are the fastest growing aging population in the U.S. However, there has been limited attention to conceptualizing successful aging among Latinos, especially those residing in rural communities.

Changes in Latina Women's Exposure to Cleaning Chemicals Associated with Switching from Conventional to "Green" Household Cleaning Products: The LUCIR Intervention Study.

Background: Household cleaning products may be a significant source of chemical exposures, including carcinogens and suspected endocrine disruptors.

Objectives: We characterized exposures during routine household cleaning and tested an intervention to reduce exposures to cleaning product chemicals.

Methods: The Lifting Up Communities with Interventions and Research (LUCIR) Study is a youth-led, community-based intervention project.