Subjective memory concerns, poor vascular health, and male sex predict exacerbated memory decline trajectories: An integrative data-driven class and prediction analysis.

Among SMD facets, memory concerns represent the most severe degree of apprehension about subjectively experienced memory losses. The present integrative data-driven analysis indicated that such concerns predicted membership in declining memory trajectory classes in addition to worse vascular health (higher PP) and sex (male). In nondemented aging, concerns about increasing memory failures may be veridical indicators of memory loss, especially when coupled with vascular comorbidity and being male. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).