Persistent pain is associated with accelerated memory decline and an increased probability of dementia, new research shows.
A team of researchers led by Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS, a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF School of Medicine, in San Francisco, studied 10,065 community-dwelling older adults who were participating in the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (JAMA Intern Med 2017;177:1146-1153 ). Participants were 62 years of age or older in 2000, and answered questions