Household Crowding and Neurocognitive Performance in a Cohort of Middle‐Aged Latina Women: The CHAMACOS Maternal Cognition Study
Jacqueline M Torres, Lucia Calderon, Katherine Kogut, Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Monica Romero, Lizari Garcia, Yesli Perez Rocha, Nadia Rojas, Liliana Paloma Rojas‐Saunero, Brenda Eskenazi, Hector M González · 2025
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Crowded homes are common in low-income immigrant towns, and the strain may reach the brain. Jacqueline Torres and co-authors studied middle-aged Latina women in 2025 in a California farm community, most of them immigrants. Their study of five hundred thirteen women measured crowding two ways and tested memory, planning, and word skills.
Crowding went with lower scores across memory, executive function, word fluency, and overall cognition. The pattern held under both crowding measures. Crowded homes also meant about half an hour less sleep per night, while links with depression and anxiety were absent. The authors suggest lost sleep may carry part of the effect, and that housing policy could be brain policy. They flag crowding as a possible driver of unequal dementia risk.
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| CREATOR | Jacqueline M Torres, Lucia Calderon, Katherine Kogut, Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Monica Romero, Lizari Garcia, Yesli Perez Rocha, Nadia Rojas, Liliana Paloma Rojas‐Saunero, Brenda Eskenazi, Hector M González |
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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 |