Psychiatric News (12/2) reported, “Older men may be more vulnerable to the negative effects of stress on cognition compared with older women,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from 274 community-dwelling adults aged 52 to 91 years…who participated in the UCSF Memory and Aging Center’s Longitudinal Brain Aging Study.” The study team posited that “the higher risk in older men may be because they experience greater increases in the inflammatory biomarker interleukin-6 (IL-6) in response to prolonged stress compared with older women.” The findings were published online Nov. 23 ahead of print in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Prolonged Stress Linked to Cognitive Decline in Older Men, But Not Older Women, Psychiatric News,December 2, 2022