Reproductive history and cognitive aging: The Bogalusa Heart Study

Although it has become increasingly clear that pregnancy experience and pregnancy-related health predict later-life cardiometabolic health, the relationship between reproductive history and cognitive health is much less studied. Short-term, pregnancy produces changes in memory, with diminished verbal recall memory (but not recognition or working memory).1 Alzheimer's neuropathology has been found in women with more children,2,3 but not in men,4 and women with more pregnancies were found to demonstrate a younger age of onset of Alzheimer's in one case series.

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - July 4, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Emily W. Harville, Jack Guralnik, Maryellen Romero, Lydia A. Bazzano Tags: Regular Research Article Source Type: research