Association between cognitive performance and self-reported glaucoma in middle-aged and older adults: a cross-sectional analysis of elsa-brasil
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Recent evidence suggests that glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease are neurodegenerative diseases sharing common pathophysiological and etiological features, although findings are inconclusive. We sought to investigate whether self-reported
glaucoma patients without dementia present poorer cognitive performance, an issue that has been less investigated. We employed cross-sectional data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) and included participantsX50 years of age without a known diagnosis of dementia and a self-reported glaucoma diagnosis. We excluded those with previous stroke, other eye conditions, and using drugs that could impair cognition. We evaluated cognition using delayed word recall, phonemic verbal fluency, and trail making (version B) tests. We used multinomial linear regression models to investigate associations between self-reported glaucoma with cognition, adjusted by several sociodemographic and clinical variables. Out of 4,331 participants, 139 reported glaucoma. Fully-adjusted models showed that self-reported glaucoma patients presented poorer performance in the verbal fluency test (b=–0.39, 95%CI=–0.64 to –0.14, P=0.002), but not in the other cognitive assessments. Thus, our results support the hypothesis that self-reported glaucoma is associated with poor cognitive performance; however, longitudinal data are necessary to corroborate our findings
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Cohort Studies, Neuropsychological Tests, Glaucoma, Retinal Diseases, Elderly
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Cohort Studies, Cognitive performance, Glaucoma, Retinal Diseases, Elderly
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1414-431X202010347