ArticleNutrients2019
Bidirectional Associations between Obesity and Cognitive Function in Midlife Adults: A Longitudinal Study.
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- Sex- and age-dependent associations between waist-to-hip ratio and cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study of rural adults aged 40 years and older in northwestern China.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Obesity and Cognitive Function: Leptin Role Through Blood-Brain Barrier and Hippocampus.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Global Cognition and Inhibition as Predictors of Dynamic Balance in Aging Populations: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Causal links between obesity, lipids, adipokines, and cognition: a bidirectional Mendelian-randomization analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review on the Neurocognitive Profiles in Eating Disorders and Higher Weight Individuals: Insights for Targeted Interventions.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Examining the bidirectional longitudinal associations between body mass index and episodic memory following bariatric surgery.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2024Article
- [Cognitive impairment in patients with obesity and impaired carbohydrate metabolism (dysglycemia)].Problemy endokrinologii · 2024Review
- Association of changes in predicted body composition with subsequent risk of dementia.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Executive Functions and Body Weight: Sex as a Moderating Variable.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The dynamic influence of nutrition on prolonged cognitive healthspan across the life course: A perspective review.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
- Rotating shift and BMI increase among healthcare workers in a military hospital: pre- and post-pandemic analysis in Taiwan.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2024Article
- Association of cardiovascular health with cognitive function and the mediating effect of depressive state.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Examination of Body Mass Index and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: The HELIAD Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Executive Function Deficits and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Adult Sample: A Latent Variable Analysis.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
The links between obesity and cognition remain equivocal due to a variety of methodological limitations with current research, such as an overreliance on body mass index (BMI) as a measure of obesity, the use of cross-sectional designs, and inadequate specification over the domains of cognitive function to be examined. To address these issues, we used data from the Cognitive Project of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, a large-scale, longitudinal dataset on non-institutionalized midlife adults (
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