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Subjective Memory Complaints Are an Important Surrogate for Objective Cognitive Performance in African Americans.
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- A world view: Considerations of sociocultural diversity in the study of subjective cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Review
- Differential associations between subjective and objective physical activity and memory across adulthood: a specification curve analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Subjective cognitive decline among diverse older adults: Prevalence and associations with objective cognition.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Subjective cognitive decline across ethnoracial groups in the A4 study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023Article
- Association of Subjective Cognitive Decline With Progression to Dementia in a Cognitively Unimpaired Multiracial Community Sample.Neurology · 2023Article
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Subjective Cognitive Complaints in a Diverse Primary Care Population.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2021Article
- Does the association between objective and subjective memory vary by age among healthy older adults?Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognitionArticle
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Abstract
purposeSubjective memory complaints (SMCs) have been shown to be associated with lower neuropsychological test scores cross-sectionally. However, it remains unclear whether such findings hold true for African American (AA) older adults.
methodsBaseline visit data from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center database collected from September 2005 to March 2018 were used. Generalized linear mixed models specifying binomial distributions were used to examine how neuropsychological test scores affect the likelihood of reporting SMCs. PATIENTS: Inclusion criteria were participants who reported AA as their primary race, 60 to 80 years of age, were cognitively unimpaired, and had a Mini-Mental Status Examination score ≥26. A total of 1021 older AA adults without missing data met the criteria.
resultsA total of 258 participants reported a SMC. SMCs were more likely with lower scores on measures of episodic memory and processing; however, SMCs were also more likely with higher scores on a measure of working memory. Working memory appeared to mediate reporting of SMC among participants with lower episodic memory scores. DISCUSSION: These findings demonstrate that SMCs are associated with lower scores on objective neuropsychological measures among older AAs. Additional work is needed to determine whether SMCs are further associated with a risk for clinical transition to mild cognitive impairment or dementia among AA older adults.
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