Shu Chen, Shanquan Chen, Katja Hanewald, Yafei Si, Hazel Bateman, Bingqin Lin, Xiaolin Xu, Suraj Samtani, Chenkai Wu, Henry Brodaty
BACKGROUND: The role of social environment, i.e., the aggregate effect of social determinants of health (SDOHs), in determining dementia is unclear. METHODS: We developed a novel polysocial risk score for dementia based on 19 SDOH among 5,199 participants in the Health and Retirement Study, US, to measure the social environmental risk. We used a survival analysis approach to assess the association between social environment and dementia risk in 2006-2020. We further studied the interaction between social environment and lifestyles, and explored racial disparities...
May 11, 2024: Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences