Health: Women experience 'significantly faster' declines in cognition than men - Daily Mail

Compared with men, women undergo 'significantly faster' cognitive declines later in life that increases their risk of dementia, a new study has warned.

However, women were found to undergo significantly greater declines in both global cognition and executive function — trends linked to increase dementia risk. .

Compared with men, women undergo 'significantly faster' cognitive declines later in life that increases their risk of dementia, a new study has warned (stock image).

'[Our] results suggest that women have greater cognitive reserve but faster later-life cognitive decline than men,' the researchers wrote in their paper.

This, they added, 'is consistent with research showing that women with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease have faster cognitive decline than men.'.

All subjects included in the study had no prior history of stroke or dementia at the time of their first assessment, as such can affect the rate of cognitive decline.

The researchers found that — at the time of their first cognitive assessment, women had significantly higher performance scores on average in global cognition, executive function and memory than their male counterparts.

While the memory capacities of women and men were found to decline over time at roughly the same rate, women were found to experience significantly faster declines in their performance in both global cognition and executive function tests.

While the memory capacities of women and men were found to decline over time at roughly the same rate, women were found to experience significantly faster declines in their performance in both global cognition and executive function tests.

Women, they added, have a greater risk than men of being diagnosed with dementia based on objectively measured cognitive decline. .