Differential Patterns of Circadian Rhythmicity in Women with Malignant Versus Benign Gynecologic Tumors
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
cancer, circadian rhythms, gynecologic cancer, oncology, symptoms, wearable sensors
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4972
Abstract
Background: There is significant attention to the growing elderly African American population and estimating who and how many within this population will be affected by cognitive impairment.
Objective: The etiology of cognitive impairment has not been well studied in African Americans and the contribution of genetic and environmental influences to cognitive impairment is not clear.
Methods: We calculated concordance rates and heritability for cognitive impairment in 95 same-sexed pairs of African American twins from the Carolina African American Twin Study on Aging (CAATSA). The sample had an average age of 59.6 years (SD = 8.6 years, range 50-88 years) and 60% were female. The Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) was used to assess cognitive impairment with a lower cutoff based on our previous research with African Americans.
Results: Thirteen of the monozygotic (MZ) twins (30.2%) and 9 of the dizygotic (DZ) twins (17.3%) were cognitively impaired. The concordance rate was 72% for MZ and 45% for DZ. We found the heritability for cognitive impairment to be 54%.
Conclusions: The study findings indicate that cognitive impairment is highly heritable, suggesting that genetics may play a relatively large role in the development of cognitive impairment in African American twins.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Psycho-Oncology, v. 28, issue 3, p. 643-646
Scholar Commons Citation
Hoogland, Aasha I., "Differential Patterns of Circadian Rhythmicity in Women with Malignant Versus Benign Gynecologic Tumors" (2019). Aging Studies Faculty Publications. 95.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gey_facpub/95
