ArticleBMC geriatrics2017
Cognitive impairment and hypertension in older adults living in extreme poverty: a cross-sectional study in Peru.
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- Overlooked cases of mild cognitive impairment: Implications to early Alzheimer's disease.Ageing research reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in patients with hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2021Pooled it
- The influencing factors of cognitive impairment in elderly individuals in Chengdu city: a cross-sectional study based on AD8.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Prevalence of cognitive impairment and its associated factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with hypertension in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and cognitive impairment among non-communicable disease patients in Southern Chennai, Tamil Nadu.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Article
- Changes in Prevalence and Determinants of Self-Reported Hypertension among Bangladeshi Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Prevalence of Psychiatric Morbidity and Cognitive Impairment among Patients Attending the Rural Noncommunicable Disease Clinic.Journal of neurosciences in rural practice · 2020Article
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- Later-Onset Hypertension Is Associated With Higher Risk of Dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies have shown that hypertension is a risk factor for cognitive impairment, but whether this association is also present in extremely poor populations in Low Middle Income Countries settings remains to be studied. Understanding other drivers of cognitive impairment in this unique population also merits attention.
methodsWe performed a secondary analysis using data from the "Encuesta de Salud y Bienestar del Adulto Mayor", a regional survey conducted in an extremely poor population of people older than 65 years old from 12 Peruvian cities in 2012. The outcome variable was cognitive impairment, determined by a score of ≤7 in the modified Mini-Mental State Examination. The exposure was self-reported hypertension status. Variables such as age, gender, controlled hypertension, education level, occupation, depression and area of living (rural/urban) were included in the adjusted analysis. We used Poisson regression with robust variance to calculate prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) adjusting for confounders.
resultsData from 3842 participants was analyzed, 51.8% were older than 70 years, and 45.6% were females. The prevalence of cognitive impairment was 1.7% (95% CI 1.3%-2.1%). There was no significant difference on the prevalence of cognitive impairment between the group of individuals with hypertension in comparison with those without hypertension (PR = 0.64, 95% CI 0.33-1.23).
conclusionsThe association described between hypertension and cognitive impairment was not found in a sample of extremely poor Peruvian older adults.
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