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Depressive Symptoms Partially Mediate the Association of Frailty Phenotype Symptoms and Cognition for Females but Not Males.
Journal of aging and health - 1 Jan 2023
Resciniti Nicholas V, Farina Mateo P, Merchant Anwar T, Lohman Matthew C
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OBJECTIVES: We aimed to evaluate whether depressive symptoms mediated the relationship between frailty phenotype and cognitive function by sex. METHODS: Data came from the Health and Retirement Study from 2012-2016. The outcome was measured by Fried's frailty criteria, our outcome was continuous global cognition, and mediator was depressive symptoms. We used mediation analysis, stratified by sex, to estimate the...
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