Publicación: SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND MORBID RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN OLDER ADULTS

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2021
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CUADERNOS DE NEUROPSICOLOGÍA / PANAMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
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IN THE LAST YEARS, AN ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO IDENTIFY THE RISK FACTORS THAT ARE RELATED TO THE IMPAIRMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER FACTORS SUCH AS AGE, EDUCATION, HYPERTENSION AND DEPRESSION, AMONG OTHERS, ARE ASSOCIATED WITH MCI IN OLDER ADULTS. A SAMPLE OF 119 PEOPLE WAS SELECTED. MCI WAS DETERMINED USING ACE-R-CH AND RISK FACTORS BY USING A STRUCTURED PROTOCOL. THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VARIABLES WAS QUANTIFIED WITH ODDS-RATIO AND ?2 TEST. A LOGISTIC MODEL WAS PUT TO USE FOR REGRESSIVE VARIABLES WITH WALD TEST. THE REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF THE VARIABLES SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH MCI (P