|

AUCD Community Inclusion

AUCD’s Community Inclusion Team supports the University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) Network in partnership with the Administration for Community Living.

Learn More
|

AUCD Maternal and Child Health Engagement

AUCD’s Maternal and Child Health Engagement supports the Autism CARES Programs, including LEND and DBP Programs.

Learn More
|

AUCD Public Health

AUCD’s Public Health Team works to create health promotion and public health efforts that include people with disabilities.

Learn More
|

AUCD Emerging Leaders Community

AUCD Emerging Leaders are a part of a community that includes trainees, early career professionals, self-advocates, and family members from AUCD member Centers and Programs.

Learn More

Donate

Product

The relationship between brain and physical functions in middle-age.

Center:

OR-Oregon Institute on Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2012

Contact Information:

Product Description:

We examined the association between cognitive function and lower body (LB) physical performance in the African American Health (AAH) project. AAH is a population-based panel study of 998 African Americans born in 1936-1950 from two diverse socioeconomic areas of St. Louis, MO. Baseline measures of LB function included chair stands, semi-tandem stand, tandem stand eyes open, tandem stand eyes closed, 1-leg stand, and preferred gait speed. Grip strength and peak expiratory flow (PEF) were also measured. Cognitive function was measured on all subjects using: Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) and Animal Naming (AN). Baseline scores for each cognitive test were divided into tertiles, and performance between groups for each function was compared using ANOVAs for trend. There was significant and monotonic worsening of the 6 LB performance measures, grip strength, and PEF across the cognitive tertiles.

Keyword(s):

Race, cognitive function, physical function, age, epidemiology

Product/Publication Type(s):

Conference presentations and posters presented

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers

Alternative Format:

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

[email protected]

COVID-19 Related Data:

N/A

1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1000 Silver Spring, MD 20910