Is the countryside still inside? Exploring long‐standing effects of childhood rurality for dementia risk in the PROAME Study
João Victor de Faria Rocha, Clarisse Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Kelle Luisa dos Santos Tomaz, Emma Patrice Ruppert, Aida Lourandes, Ana Paula Zacarias, Joanna de Castro Magalhães Assenção, Luciana Paula Rincon, Norton Gray Ferreira Ribeiro, Howard J. Rosen, Lea T. Grinberg, Francisca Izabel Pereira M · 2025
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João Victor de Faria Rocha and a team ask whether a rural childhood leaves a mark on dementia risk decades later, in this 2025 study from Brazil. Dementia runs commoner in rural Latin America, through lifelong gaps in schooling and care. The team studied city dwellers who had migrated young, testing whether countryside origins still showed.
One hundred eight adults over forty, most of them countryside-born, received cognitive testing, interviews, literacy checks, and a blood marker of nerve damage. The groups looked alike in health habits and in rates of hypertension, diabetes, depression, and other classic risk factors, and cognition did not differ significantly. Schooling did: the city-born were four times likelier to have attended formal school, with more years of it. Literacy, more than schooling, tracked with cognition and the blood marker. The authors propose low literacy as the thread linking rural childhood to later risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | João Victor de Faria Rocha, Clarisse Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Kelle Luisa dos Santos Tomaz, Emma Patrice Ruppert, Aida Lourandes, Ana Paula Zacarias, Joanna de Castro Magalhães Assenção, Luciana Paula Rincon, Norton Gray Ferreira Ribeiro, Howard J. Rosen, Lea T. Grinberg, Francisca Izabel Pereira M |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |