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Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?

The aim of the present study was to examine if obese individuals with obesity-related somatic comorbidity (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, dyslipidemia, pain disorder) perform worse in neurocognitive tasks compared to obese individuals without any somatic disorder. Neurocognitive function...

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Autores principales: Kiunke, Wibke, Brandl, Christina, Georgiadou, Ekaterini, Gruner-Labitzke, Kerstin, Horbach, Thomas, Köhler, Hinrich, de Zwaan, Martina, Müller, Astrid
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23964246
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00084
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author Kiunke, Wibke
Brandl, Christina
Georgiadou, Ekaterini
Gruner-Labitzke, Kerstin
Horbach, Thomas
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de Zwaan, Martina
Müller, Astrid
author_facet Kiunke, Wibke
Brandl, Christina
Georgiadou, Ekaterini
Gruner-Labitzke, Kerstin
Horbach, Thomas
Köhler, Hinrich
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Müller, Astrid
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description The aim of the present study was to examine if obese individuals with obesity-related somatic comorbidity (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, dyslipidemia, pain disorder) perform worse in neurocognitive tasks compared to obese individuals without any somatic disorder. Neurocognitive functioning was measured by a computerized test battery that consisted of the following tasks: Corsi Block Tapping Test, Auditory Word Learning Task, Trail Making Test-Part B, Stroop Test, Labyrinth Test, and a four-disk version of the Tower of Hanoi. The total sample consisted of 146 patients, the majority (N = 113) suffered from obesity grade 3, 26 individuals had obesity grade 2, and only 7 individuals obesity grade 1. Ninety-eight participants (67.1%) reported at least one somatic disorder (Soma(+)-group). Hypertension was present in 75 individuals (51.4%), type 2 diabetes in 34 participants (23.3%), 38 individuals had sleep apnea (26.0%), 16 suffered from dyslipidemia (11.0%), and 14 individuals reported having a chronic pain disorder (9.6%). Participants without a coexisting somatic disorder were younger [M(Soma−) = 33.7, SD = 9.8 vs. M(Soma+) = 42.7, SD = 11.0, F(1, 144) = 23.01, p < 0.001] and more often female [89.6 and 62.2%, χ(2)(1) = 11.751, p = 0.001] but did not differ with respect to education, regular binge eating, or depressive symptoms from those in the Soma(+)-group. The Soma(−)-group performed better on cognitive tasks related to memory and mental flexibility. However, the group differences disappeared completely after controlling for age. The findings indicate that in some obese patients increasing age may not only be accompanied by an increase of obesity severity and by more obesity-related somatic disorders but also by poorer cognitive functioning.
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spelling pubmed-37416472013-08-20 Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter? Kiunke, Wibke Brandl, Christina Georgiadou, Ekaterini Gruner-Labitzke, Kerstin Horbach, Thomas Köhler, Hinrich de Zwaan, Martina Müller, Astrid Front Psychiatry Psychiatry The aim of the present study was to examine if obese individuals with obesity-related somatic comorbidity (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, dyslipidemia, pain disorder) perform worse in neurocognitive tasks compared to obese individuals without any somatic disorder. Neurocognitive functioning was measured by a computerized test battery that consisted of the following tasks: Corsi Block Tapping Test, Auditory Word Learning Task, Trail Making Test-Part B, Stroop Test, Labyrinth Test, and a four-disk version of the Tower of Hanoi. The total sample consisted of 146 patients, the majority (N = 113) suffered from obesity grade 3, 26 individuals had obesity grade 2, and only 7 individuals obesity grade 1. Ninety-eight participants (67.1%) reported at least one somatic disorder (Soma(+)-group). Hypertension was present in 75 individuals (51.4%), type 2 diabetes in 34 participants (23.3%), 38 individuals had sleep apnea (26.0%), 16 suffered from dyslipidemia (11.0%), and 14 individuals reported having a chronic pain disorder (9.6%). Participants without a coexisting somatic disorder were younger [M(Soma−) = 33.7, SD = 9.8 vs. M(Soma+) = 42.7, SD = 11.0, F(1, 144) = 23.01, p < 0.001] and more often female [89.6 and 62.2%, χ(2)(1) = 11.751, p = 0.001] but did not differ with respect to education, regular binge eating, or depressive symptoms from those in the Soma(+)-group. The Soma(−)-group performed better on cognitive tasks related to memory and mental flexibility. However, the group differences disappeared completely after controlling for age. The findings indicate that in some obese patients increasing age may not only be accompanied by an increase of obesity severity and by more obesity-related somatic disorders but also by poorer cognitive functioning. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3741647/ /pubmed/23964246 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00084 Text en Copyright © 2013 Kiunke, Brandl, Georgiadou, Gruner-Labitzke, Horbach, Köhler, de Zwaan and Müller. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Kiunke, Wibke
Brandl, Christina
Georgiadou, Ekaterini
Gruner-Labitzke, Kerstin
Horbach, Thomas
Köhler, Hinrich
de Zwaan, Martina
Müller, Astrid
Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?
title Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?
title_full Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?
title_fullStr Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?
title_full_unstemmed Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?
title_short Performance in Neurocognitive Tasks in Obese Patients. Does Somatic Comorbidity Matter?
title_sort performance in neurocognitive tasks in obese patients. does somatic comorbidity matter?
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23964246
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00084
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