Publications by authors named "Vera Aarsland"
Background: With this study, we aim to determine the associations of the different categories of the body mass index (BMI) with activities of daily living (ADL) and cognitive performance in two different populations living in the community; Colombian and South Korean older adults.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of two surveys separately; The Survey on Health, Well-Being, and Aging in Colombia (SABE) (n = 23,343) and the Korean Longitudinal Study of aging (KLoSA) (n = 4556). Participants older than 50 years were selected from rural and urban areas achieving a representative sample.
Introduction: Functional status decline is related to many negative outcomes.
Objective: To explore the relationship of sociodemographic, medical, and psychological factors with the incidence of functional status decline in Mexican older adults.
Materials And Methods: Data from the 2012 and 2015 waves of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) survey were analyzed.
Hippocampal atrophy is presented in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Cognition, dual-tasks, muscular function, goal-related behaviors and neuropsychiatric symptoms are linked to hippocampal volumes and may lead to functional decline in activities of daily living. We examined the association between baseline hippocampal subfield volumes (HSv) in mild AD and DLB, and functional decline.
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- The study aims to explore the relationship between physical activity and cognitive function among older adults in Mexico and South Korea, highlighting the growing concern of cognitive impairment as populations age.
- Utilizing data from two surveys, the research involved participants over 50 years of age and assessed physical activity and cognitive function using specific tests.
- Results indicated that while 40.68% of participants in Mexico reported physical activity, a significant protective link between physical activity and cognitive function was found only in the Korean older adults, suggesting differing impacts based on location.