Christine M Walsh1, Terri Blackwell2, Gregory J Tranah2, Katie L Stone2, Sonia Ancoli-Israel3, Susan Redline4, Misti Paudel5, Joel H Kramer6, Kristine Yaffe7. 1. Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Veterans Administration, San Francisco, CA. 2. California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA. 3. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA. 4. Harvard Medical School, Division of Sleep Medicine, Boston, MA: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. 5. School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 6. Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA. 7. Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Veterans Administration, San Francisco, CA: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Older adults and patients with dementia often have disrupted circadian activity rhythms (CARs). Disrupted CARs are associated with health declines and could affect cognitive aging. We hypothesized that among older women, weaker CARs would be associated with poorer cognitive function 5 y later. DESIGN: Prospective observational study. SETTING: Three US clinical sites. PARTICIPANTS: There were 1,287 community-dwelling older women (82.8 ± 3.1 y) participating in an ongoing prospective study who were free of dementia at the baseline visit. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Baseline actigraphy was used to determine CAR measures (amplitude, mesor, and rhythm robustness, analyzed as quartiles; acrophase analyzed by peak activity time < 13:34 and > 15:51). Five years later, cognitive performance was assessed with the Modified Mini-Mental Status Examination (3MS), California Verbal Learning Task (CVLT), digit span, Trail Making Test B (Trails B), categorical fluency, and letter fluency. We compared cognitive performance with CARs using analyses of covariance adjusted for a number of health factors and comorbidities. Women in the lowest quartile for CAR amplitude performed worse on Trails B and categorical fluency compared to women in the highest quartile (group difference (d) = 30.42 sec, d = -1.01 words respectively, P < 0.05). Women in the lowest quartile for mesor performed worse on categorical fluency (d = -0.86 words, P < 0.05). Women with a later acrophase performed worse on categorical fluency (d = -0.69 words, P < 0.05). Controlling for baseline Mini-Mental State Examination and sleep factors had little effect on our results. CONCLUSION: Weaker circadian activity rhythm patterns are associated with worse cognitive function, especially executive function, in older women without dementia. Further investigation is required to determine the etiology of these relationships.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Older adults and patients with dementia often have disrupted circadian activity rhythms (CARs). Disrupted CARs are associated with health declines and could affect cognitive aging. We hypothesized that among older women, weaker CARs would be associated with poorer cognitive function 5 y later. DESIGN: Prospective observational study. SETTING: Three US clinical sites. PARTICIPANTS: There were 1,287 community-dwelling older women (82.8 ± 3.1 y) participating in an ongoing prospective study who were free of dementia at the baseline visit. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Baseline actigraphy was used to determine CAR measures (amplitude, mesor, and rhythm robustness, analyzed as quartiles; acrophase analyzed by peak activity time < 13:34 and > 15:51). Five years later, cognitive performance was assessed with the Modified Mini-Mental Status Examination (3MS), California Verbal Learning Task (CVLT), digit span, Trail Making Test B (Trails B), categorical fluency, and letter fluency. We compared cognitive performance with CARs using analyses of covariance adjusted for a number of health factors and comorbidities. Women in the lowest quartile for CAR amplitude performed worse on Trails B and categorical fluency compared to women in the highest quartile (group difference (d) = 30.42 sec, d = -1.01 words respectively, P < 0.05). Women in the lowest quartile for mesor performed worse on categorical fluency (d = -0.86 words, P < 0.05). Women with a later acrophase performed worse on categorical fluency (d = -0.69 words, P < 0.05). Controlling for baseline Mini-Mental State Examination and sleep factors had little effect on our results. CONCLUSION: Weaker circadian activity rhythm patterns are associated with worse cognitive function, especially executive function, in older women without dementia. Further investigation is required to determine the etiology of these relationships.
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