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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2023

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some modifiable risk factors of dementia in an aging, rural Indian population.

Jonas S Sundarakumar, Abhishek L Mensegere, Palash K Malo, Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, SANSCOG Collaborators

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonas S SundarakumarCentre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Abhishek L MensegereCentre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Palash K MaloCentre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Vijayalakshmi RavindranathCentre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
SANSCOG Collaborators
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns is likely to have caused adverse changes in lifestyle-related/cardiovascular risk factors and other such modifiable risk factors of dementia. We aimed to examine the pandemic's impact on some modifiable risk factors of dementia among rural Indians belonging to a large, prospective aging cohort-Srinivaspura Aging, NeuoSenescence, and COGnition (SANSCOG). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among adults aged ≥ 45 years ( Results: The odds of having obesity, abnormal triglycerides, and depression among individuals in the COVID period were 1.42 times, 1.38 times, and 2.65 times more than the odds in the pre-COVID period, respectively. The odds of having hypertension, obesity, abnormal total cholesterol, abnormal triglycerides, abnormal LDL, and depression among individuals in the post-COVID period were 1.27 times, 1.32 times, 1.58 times, 1.95, 1.23, and 3.05 times more than the odds in the pre-COVID period, respectively. The odds of diabetes did not differ between any of the three periods. Discussion: We found significantly higher odds of some of the studied risk factors in the COVID and post-COVID periods compared to the pre-COVID period, suggesting that the pandemic adversely impacted the physical and psychological health of this marginalized, rural Indian population. We call for urgent public health measures, such as multimodal, lifestyle-based, and psychosocial interventions, to mitigate this negative impact and reduce the future risk of dementia.

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cardiovascular risk factorsCOVID-19dementiaelderlypandemic (COVID-19)rural India

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