Researchers Innovative Study Links Sustained Poverty to Worse Cognitive Function in Midlife

From left, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Ph.D., with Tali Elfassy, M.S.P.H.

Sustained exposure to economic hardship over two decades was strongly associated with worse cognitive function in relatively young individuals, according to a recent study led by Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Ph.D., assistant professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Zeki Al Hazzouri, Ph.D., was lead author of the article, Sustained Economic Hardship and Cognitive Function: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study, published recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Her Miller School co-author was Tali Elfassy, M.S.P.H., a Ph.D. candidate in Epidemiology. The studys co-authors are Stephen Sidney, M.D., M.P.H., of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif.; David Jacobs, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Eliseo J. Perez Stable, M.D., of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities in Bethesda, and Kristine Yaffe, M.D., from the University of California San Francisco.

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