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SUBMITTER: Wright RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418872 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wright R S RS Waldstein S R SR Gerassimakis C S CS Sprung M R MR Moody D L Beatty DLB Taylor A D AD Al'Najjar E E McNeely J M JM Zhang Z Z Evans M K MK Zonderman A B AB
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 20190326 4
This study examined multiple influences on cognitive function among African Americans, including education, literacy, poverty status, substance use, depressive symptoms, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Baseline data were analyzed from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. Participants were 987 African Americans (mean age 48.5 years, SD = 9.17) who completed cognitive measures assessing verbal learning and memory, nonverbal memory, wor ...[more]