Determining the association of medical co-morbidity with subjective and objective cognitive performance in an inner city memory disorders clinic: a retrospective chart review

BMC Geriatrics

Research Article

Depeng Jiang¹  Tom A Schweizer²  Corinne E Fischer³ 

[1] Department of Community Health Services, University of Manitoba Department of Community Health Services, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, R3E 0W3, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;Department of Neurosurgery, St. Michael's Hospital, #30 Bond St. Toronto, M5B 1W8, Ontario, Canada;Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, room 2-30, #209 Victoria St, M5B 1T8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Department of Psychiatry, room 17044, St. Michael's Hospital, #30 Bond St, M5B 1W8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, room 2-30, #209 Victoria St, M5B 1T8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;

关键词: Dementia;    Mild Cognitive Impairment;    Cognitive Reserve;    Memory Complaint;    Subjective Memory;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2318-10-89

 received in 2010-06-18, accepted in 2010-12-17,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMedical co-morbidity may be associated with impaired cognitive function based on prior studies. However, no studies to date have determined to what extent this association is linked to medical illness or other factors that may be linked to medical illness (such as education, income levels, depression or subjective memory loss). The present study examined how medical co-morbidity, socioeconomic status (defined as residential SES), education and depression are associated with subjective and objective memory function in a sample of patients recruited from a university affiliated Memory Disorders Clinic located in a large Canadian inner city teaching hospital.MethodsData was collected from 85 consecutive referrals to an Inner City Memory Disorders Clinic including socio-demographic characteristics, cognitive status and medical co-morbidity. Descriptive and correlational analyses were conducted.ResultsImpaired objective cognitive function correlated significantly with increased medical co-morbidity and partially with education but not with residential SES or depression. Elevated memory complaints correlated significantly with depression, inversely with residential SES and not at all with medical co-morbidity or education.ConclusionsIncreased medical co-morbidity is significantly associated with impaired cognitive performance but not with subjective memory complaints in an Inner City Memory Clinic sample.

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