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  • Biostatistics

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  • Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD) and age-related cognitive decline are multifactorial with complex etiologies.
  • Research has primarily focused on clustering individuals, with less attention paid to heterogeneity in the relationships between outcomes and risk factors.
  • Heterogeneity in these relationships can impede the development of precise risk prediction models for cognitive decline.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate evidence of heterogeneity in the associations between memory test performance and various social and demographic risk factors.
  • To explore the implications of this heterogeneity for building accurate predictive models in large population datasets.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the large MindCrowd database (n>90,000).
  • Employed mixture regression models, comparing models with interaction effects and random effects.
  • Analyzed relationships between memory test performance and social/demographic risk factors.

Main Results:

  • Substantial evidence for heterogeneity in the relationships between memory performance and risk factors was identified.
  • An intuitive explanation for this heterogeneity, linked to motivation for participation, was proposed.
  • The findings highlight potential biases in large epidemiological datasets.

Conclusions:

  • Heterogeneity in risk-outcome relationships is a significant factor in cognitive aging research.
  • Caution is advised when using large epidemiological datasets for predictive modeling without accounting for heterogeneity.
  • Further validation through companion studies, like those in the Precision Aging Network (PAN), is recommended.