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Stressors Across The Lifespan And Dementia Risk: A Statistical Method Analysis, Megan Platt Borrowman
Stressors Across The Lifespan And Dementia Risk: A Statistical Method Analysis, Megan Platt Borrowman
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The Cache Lifespan Stressors and Alzheimer's Disease (LSAD) study has access to data from the Cache County Study on Memory Health and Aging (CCS) that have been linked to the extensive genealogical and vital records from the Utah Population Database (UPDB). Information about stressful life events experienced by the original 5092 CCS participants has been extracted objectively from the UPDB, without the possibility of recall bias. This information was then statistically analyzed to look for relationships between key stressors and dementia risk. The LSAD study made it possible to examine the correlation between stressors as well as look at patterns …