ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2015
Shorter adult height is associated with poorer cognitive performance in elderly men with type II diabetes.
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- Life-course policies to address high dementia risk in nigerian women should synergistically combat poor education and early-life nutrition disparities.BMC neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Association Between Anthropometry and Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Secondary Analysis from the 'Cognition in Diabetes' Study.TouchREVIEWS in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Differences in height, weight, and BMI in patients with mood disorders, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders vs. normal controls.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Sex-related associations between body height and cognitive impairment among low-income elderly adults in rural China: a population-based cross-sectional study.Biology of sex differences · 2021Article
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- Short height and poor education increase the risk of dementia in Nigerian type 2 diabetic women.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2019Article
- Structural neuroimaging in mild traumatic brain injury: A chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2019Observational
- Association of ApoE Genetic Polymorphism and Type 2 Diabetes with Cognition in Non-Demented Aging Chinese Adults: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study.Aging and disease · 2018Article
- Relationships between cognitive function and body composition among community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2017Article
- Genetically-Predicted Adult Height and Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2017Article
- Adult Body Height Is a Good Predictor of Different Dimensions of Cognitive Function in Aged Individuals: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
We studied the relationship of adult body height with five cognitive outcomes (executive functioning, semantic categorization, attention/working memory, episodic memory, and an overall cognition measure) in 897 cognitively normal elderly with type 2 diabetes. Regression analyses controlling for sociodemographic, cardiovascular, and diabetes-related risk factors and depression demonstrated that in males, shorter stature was associated with poorer executive functioning (p = 0.001), attention/working memory (p = 0.007), and overall cognition (p = 0.016), but not with episodic memory (p = 0.715) or semantic categorization (p = 0.948). No relationship between height and cognition was found for females. In cognitively normal type 2 diabetes male subjects, shorter stature, a surrogate for early-life stress and poor nutrition, was associated with cognitive functions.
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