Association between anxiety, stress, and cognition in middle‐aged adults: Exploratory factor analysis across multiple anxiety and stress measures

Anxiety and stress symptoms may be linked to a heightened risk of developing cognitive impairment. Specifically, panic-related symptoms may play a significant role in the relationship between anxiety symptoms and cognition. Limitations include: 1) cross-sectional nature of the study limited ability to ascertain direction of causality; 2) individuals with major psychiatric conditions were excluded from the study, thus limiting external validity of the current findings; 3) HBP sample has a higher proportion of individuals with a family history of dementia compared to the general population, hence the sample presents with an increased risk of developing dementia and generalizability of our findings may be limited.