Cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in rural South Africa: baseline evidence from the HAALSI study

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1579 - 11
• Main Authors: Houle, Brian, Gaziano, Thomas, Farrell, Meagan, Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier, Kobayashi, Lindsay C, Crowther, Nigel J, Wade, Alisha N, Montana, Livia, Wagner, Ryan G, Berkman, Lisa, Tollman, Stephen M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 27.11.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Africa; Aged; Aging; AIDS; Blood pressure; Body mass index; Cardiometabolic disease; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - psychology; Cognition; Cognitive ability; Cognitive function; Confidence intervals; Correlation analysis; Cross-sectional studies; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemia; Emtricitabine; Epidemiology; Female; Future predictions; Health; Health risks; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Hypertension; Life expectancy; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical research; Metabolic Diseases - epidemiology; Metabolic Diseases - psychology; Middle Aged; Mortality; Noncommunicable disease; Numeracy; Obesity; Older people; Population; Population studies; Public health; Regression analysis; Retirement; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; Rural areas; Rural Population - statistics & numerical data; Smoking; Sociodemographics; South Africa - epidemiology; Statistical analysis; Studies; Underweight; South Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Cardiometabolic disease; Noncommunicable disease; Cross-sectional studies; Cognitive function; Epidemiology; Africa

Evidence on cognitive function in older South Africans is limited, with few population-based studies. We aimed to estimate baseline associations between cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in rural South Africa. We use baseline data from "Health and Aging in Africa: A Lo...