2024
Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US
Lin Z, Ye J, Allore H, Gill T, Chen X. Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine 2024, 184: 904-914. PMID: 38805197, PMCID: PMC11134283, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1132.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEarly-life circumstancesLate-life cognitionRacial disparitiesCross-sectional studyBlack participantsWhite participantsCognitive scoresCognitive impairmentRacial differencesTelephone Interview for Cognitive StatusHealth and Retirement StudyAssociated with racial disparitiesPromote health equityPrevalence of cognitive impairmentIntervention of cognitive impairmentNon-Hispanic blacksSurvey of US adultsNon-Hispanic whitesReduce racial disparitiesPrimary explanatory variableSubstantial racial differencesHealth equityRetirement StudyOlder AdultsUS adultsMental-somatic multimorbidity in trajectories of cognitive function for middle-aged and older adults
Chen S, Nagel C, Liu R, Botoseneanu A, Allore H, Newsom J, Thielke S, Kaye J, Quiñones A. Mental-somatic multimorbidity in trajectories of cognitive function for middle-aged and older adults. PLOS ONE 2024, 19: e0303599. PMID: 38743678, PMCID: PMC11093294, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303599.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOdds of cognitive impairmentGroup-based trajectory modelingMultimorbidity combinationsLate-life increaseOlder adultsNon-Hispanic white adultsHigh riskHealth and Retirement StudyMiddle-agedHealth-related factorsTrajectories of cognitive functionCognitive declineCognitive impairmentMultinomial logistic regression modelMultinomial logistic regression analysisLow riskLogistic regression modelsLow initial riskTrajectory group membershipLogistic regression analysisRetirement StudyNon-HispanicMultimorbidityWhite adultsHispanic respondents
2021
Multimorbidity Trajectory Classes as Predicted by Race, Ethnicity, and Social Relationship Quality
Newsom J, O'Neill A, Denning E, Botoseneanu A, Allore H, Nagel C, Dorr D, Quiñones A. Multimorbidity Trajectory Classes as Predicted by Race, Ethnicity, and Social Relationship Quality. Innovation In Aging 2021, 5: 873-873. PMCID: PMC8681668, DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igab046.3155.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHealth and Retirement StudyIntersection of genderSocial supportOlder adultsWhite womenOlder Hispanic womenOlder Black womenBinary logistic regression modelLogistic regression modelsSocial relationship qualityNational data analysisPsychosocial measuresRetirement StudyHispanic womenRacial/ethnic groupsCoronavirus/COVID-19 pandemicWomen's experiencesHispanic menBlack womenOld white manLabor marketSocial inequalitiesPolicy changesRegression modelsWhite men