Loneliness, depression and cognitive function in older U.S. adults
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...…are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, stroke, and coronary heart disease (Steptoe et al., 2004; Valtorta et al., 2016) as well as experience cognitive decline and develop dementia (Boss et al., 2015; Donovan et al., 2017; Gerst-Emerson and Jayawardhana, 2015; Kuiper et al., 2015)....
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...Notably, SI/L have been found to be independent risk factors with a cumulative effect on cognitive decline and dementia risk in some studies, suggesting both shared and distinct mechanisms.(1,23) Social interactions are thought to enhance cognitive capacity through activation and maintenance of the efficiency of brain networks....
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"Loneliness, depression and cognitiv..." refers methods in this paper
...A number of instruments assessing loneliness have been developed, validated and implemented in studies of the elderly, such as the 20-item and 3-item versions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale and the De JongGierveld Loneliness Scale (De Jong and Van Tilburg, 2006; Hughes et al., 2004; Russell, 1996)....
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"Loneliness, depression and cognitiv..." refers methods in this paper
...A number of instruments assessing loneliness have been developed, validated and implemented in studies of the elderly, such as the 20-item and 3-item versions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale and the De JongGierveld Loneliness Scale (De Jong and Van Tilburg, 2006; Hughes et al., 2004; Russell, 1996)....
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"Loneliness, depression and cognitiv..." refers methods in this paper
...All longitudinal analyses were adjusted for potential bias because of selective loss to follow-up and mortality using inverse probability weights (IPW) (Hernan et al., 2004)....
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...The inverse of such probability was the IPW, and can be incorporated in the regression model to adjust for selective attrition because of survival and other forms of lossto-follow-up (Weuve et al., 2012)....
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"Loneliness, depression and cognitiv..." refers background or methods in this paper
...…from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative cohort collecting information on the health, social, work and economic characteristics of older adults in the United States that has been conducted biennially since 1992 (Herringa and Connor, 1995; Juster and Suzman, 1995)....
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...Data were derived from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative cohort collecting information on the health, social, work and economic characteristics of older adults in the United States that has been conducted biennially since 1992 (Herringa and Connor, 1995; Juster and Suzman, 1995)....
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...Similarly, in a 5-year observational study of older adults, greater loneliness, using the 20-item UCLA scale, was found to significantly predict greater CES-D depression scores, but not the converse (Cacioppo et al., 2010)....
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...Although loneliness is highly correlated with depression scores (Cacioppo et al., 2010) and unmarried status (Theeke, 2009) most lonely older individuals are married, live with others and are not clinically depressed (Perissinotto et al., 2012)....
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