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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3243
igaa057.3243
Abstracts
Session 10120 (Late Breaking Poster)
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Does Anxiety Affect Performance on Attention Task (digit span forward) on the MOCA Test? A clinical correlation study
Patel Rima 1 Nair Anil 2 1 
The Alz Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
2 
Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”878 878
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
It is unknown if anxiety affects performance on Digit span forward (DSF) in memory clinic patients. We performed a retrospective chart review of memory clinic patients in the south shore of Boston from 2010 to 2020. We correlated anxiety screen data (GAD7) to Digit Span Forward (DSF) scores obtained from the MoCA. As the data were not normal, we performed univariate analyses with Spearman correlation. A multivariate regression model estimated the relationship of DSF to covariates of GAD7, age, sex, and race. We hypothesized a negative correlation between anxiety levels scored by GAD7 and DSF. H0: Digit span forward DSF ~ GAD7+Age+Sex+Race. A chart review found 965 patients attending the memory clinic between 2010 to 2020 had analyzable data. 433 patients with available DSF and 737 had available GAD7. The patients were 58.7% female and 84.7% caucasian. The mean age was 70.1±14.4, DSF 0.8±0.4 and GAD 5.6±5.7. DSF correlated significantly to race (⍴=-0.25, p=<0.001), but not to gender (⍴=0.05, p=0.149), age (⍴=-0.04, p=0.3), or GAD7 (⍴=-0.018, p=0.71). There was no significant association of DSF to race, age, gender or GAD7 on the multivariate model. In memory clinic subjects there exists no correlation between anxiety levels scored by GAD7 and DSF performance.