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Mild and moderate cognitive impairment and mortality among Brazilian older adul...
Campos,Cecilia G.; Diniz,Breno S.; Firmo,Josélia O.; Lima-Costa,M. Fernanda; Blay,Sergio L.; Castro-Costa,EricoObjective: To compare mortality in older adults with and without mild or moderate cognitive impairment over 15 years of follow-up in a middle-income country, where little information on this subject is available. Methods: A total of 1,281 community-dwelling older adults were followed-up for a median of 13.3 years. We evaluated their cognitive impairment using the Mini-Mental State Examination, categorizing it a...
Depressive symptoms, emotional support and activities of daily living disabilit...
Torres,Juliana Lustosa; Castro-Costa,Erico; Mambrini,Juliana Vaz de Melo; Peixoto,Sérgio William Viana; Diniz,Breno Satler de OliveiraPsychosocial factors appear to be associated with increased risk of disability in later life. However, there is a lack of evidence based on long-term longitudinal data from Western low-middle income countries. We investigated whether psychosocial factors at baseline predict new-onset disability in long term in a population-based cohort of older Brazilians adults. We used 15-year follow-up data from 1,014 partic...
Cognitive function among older adults: ELSI-Brazil results
Castro-Costa,Erico; Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Andrade,Fabíola Bof de; Souza Junior,Paulo Roberto Borges de; Ferri,Cleusa PinheiroABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To investigate macroregional variations in cognitive function in a national sample representative of the Brazilian population aged 50 years and older. METHODS Data from the baseline of the Longitudinal Study of Brazilian Elderly (ELSI-Brazil), collected between 2015 and 2016, were used. Memory was measured by means of a 10-word list and executive function, by semantic verbal fluency, based on...
Trajectories of cognitive decline over 10 years in a Brazilian elderly populati...
Castro-Costa,Erico; Dewey,Michael E.; Uchôa,Elizabeth; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Stewart,RobertFew population-based studies have examined long term cognitive trajectory, and these studies were conducted in high income countries. We investigated the association of age, gender and education with 10-year cognitive trajectory in a well-defined population of elderly using data from the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging, in Brazil. Cognition was measured using the Mini- Mental State Examination (MMSE). Cohort membe...
Measures of effect for cross-sectional studies
Castro-Costa,Erico; Ferri,Cleusa Pinheiro
Long-acting injectable risperidone improves quality of life in schizophrenic pa...
Castro-Costa,Erico; Andrade,João Marcos de Castro; Quites,Lucas