Research results reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference provide clues about associations
between cognitive status in older people and several behavior and lifestyle factors, including verbal skill, hearing, dental health, and hospitalization.
Not exact matches
Mothers who breast feed tend to be older, have a better education, and a higher socioeconomic
status, than mothers who breast feed their children for a limited time or not at all.3 15 In some studies the association
between breast feeding and
cognitive development is not statistically significant after adjustment for such confounders.16 - 20
«In the future, we aim to identify a correlation
between arousal
status and memory acquisition and the detailed mechanism underlying this
cognitive improvement.
«We do want to test at these higher
cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps
between male and female students, as well as
between lower and higher socioeconomic
status students.»
«Our results clearly demonstrate associations
between early vitamin B12
status and various measures on development and
cognitive functioning, as for example the ability to interpret complex geometrical figures, and the ability to recognize other children «s emotions,» says Kvestad.
Change in physical achievement
between ages 15 y and 18 y predicted
cognitive performance at age 18 y. Moreover, cardiovascular fitness during early adulthood predicted socioeconomic
status and educational attainment later in life.
It is likely that the attachment
status of children of mothers with BPD mediates the relationship
between the mother's psychopathology and the child's level of
cognitive functioning.
The most recent follow - up study reported associations
between duration of breastfeeding and childhood
cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital
status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.
Thus, there appears to be a paradoxical relationship
between socioeconomic factors and
cognitive status: poor social
cognitive status can contribute to psychosocial and biological vulnerability, which can then serve to further deteriorate supportive social resources [57].
Moderation by pubertal
status instead of age yielded slightly different results, that is, in the model with stress - reactive rumination, the relationship
between negative
cognitive style and depressive symptoms was stronger in adolescents who perceived their pubertal
status as high, whereas age did not moderate this relationship.