Examining the influence of gender, education, social class and birth cohort on MMSE tracking over time: a population-based prospective cohort study.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC3542122 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
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Examining the influence of gender, education, social class and birth cohort on MMSE tracking over time: a population-based prospective cohort study.
Matthews Fiona F Marioni Riccardo R Brayne Carol C
BMC geriatrics 20120813
<h4>Background</h4>Whilst many studies have analysed predictors of longitudinal cognitive decline, few have described their impact on population distributions of cognition by age cohort. The aim of this paper was to examine whether gender, education, social class and birth cohort affect how mean population cognition changes with age.<h4>Methods</h4>The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) is a multi-centre population based longitudinal study of 13,004 individua ...[more]
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