Change in cognitive functioning over 10 years was associated with DNA methylation levels in AGBL4 (p = 9.01 × 10−7) and SORBS1 (p = 5.28 × 10−6), with the first gene playing an important role in neuronal survival and the latter gene implicated before in Alzheimer's disease and ischemic stroke. This evidence concerns the gene SORBS1 and ischemic stroke.