1. Cognitive decline and the PPAR-γ Pro12Ala genotype: variation by sex and ethnicity.
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West NA, Baxter J, Bryant LL, and Nelson TL
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- Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cognition Disorders diagnosis, Cognition Disorders ethnology, Cognition Disorders psychology, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Linear Models, Male, Mental Status and Dementia Tests, Middle Aged, Multivariate Analysis, Phenotype, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Cognition, Cognition Disorders genetics, Cognitive Aging psychology, Hispanic or Latino genetics, PPAR gamma genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People genetics
- Abstract
Objective: We investigated the association between the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-gamma Pro12Ala polymorphism and cognitive decline in older adults., Methods: Participants from a population-based cohort of older Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults (n = 492) were administered the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), a multi-domain cognitive screening tool, and the Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale (BDS), a measure of executive cognitive function, at baseline and at follow-up, an average of 22 months later. Multiple linear regression was used to investigate the association between the two cognitive test scores and the Pro12Ala polymorphism., Results: At baseline, presence of the Ala12 allele was not significantly associated with MMSE score (P = 0.62) nor with BDS score (P = 0.85). Heterogeneity was present for cognitive decline as measured by the MMSE among ethnic, sex and Ala12 allele status (P = 0.04 for three-way interaction term). Stratification by the cross-classification of sex and ethnicity revealed significantly greater declines in MMSE score among male Hispanic carriers of the Ala12 allele compared to male Hispanic non-carriers (decline = 4.0 versus 1.6 points; P = 0.02). A significant difference in decline between Ala12 carriers and non-carriers was not present among the other sex/ethnic groups., Conclusions: Carriers of the PPAR-γ Ala12 allele showed greater cognitive decline compared to non-carriers as detected by the MMSE but the risk varied across sex and ethnic groups. Male Ala12 carriers of Hispanic origin may be a high-risk group for cognitive decline., (© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com)
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- 2017
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