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Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative sample of older U.S. adults, we examined whether optimism was associated with lower risk of developing dementia in different population groups and if associations were maintained after accounting for initial health status and other potential confounders and across multiple sensitivity analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Optimism was measured using the validated Life Orientation Test\u2010Revised in 9071 cognitively healthy individuals within 2\u2009years of obtaining each person's first measure of cognitive function. Dementia was identified by an algorithm developed to perform well across major racial and ethnic groups, obtained at each of eight waves of data collection from 2006 to 2020. Cox proportional hazard models were used, and sensitivity analyses addressed major concerns such as reverse causation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We observed that a 1\u2010standard deviation increase in optimism was associated with a lower hazard of developing dementia (hazard ratio\u2009=\u20090.85, 95% confidence interval 0.82\u20130.88), after adjusting for age, sex, race and ethnicity, education, depression, and major health conditions over follow\u2010up ranging up to 14\u2009years. When stratifying by race and ethnicity, we observed similar associations in the Non\u2010Hispanic White and Black sub\u2010populations. Associations did not substantially change when health behaviors were included in the models, when we removed the first 2\u2009years of follow\u2010up to mitigate concerns about potential reverse causation, or when we excluded individuals with the poorest mental health.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Higher optimism was associated with a lower incidence of dementia. 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