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SUBMITTER: Schneider AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3662980 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schneider Andrea L C AL Sharrett A Richey AR Patel Mehul D MD Alonso Alvaro A Coresh Josef J Mosley Thomas T Selnes Ola O Selvin Elizabeth E Gottesman Rebecca F RF
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 20120926 10
<h4>Objectives</h4>To evaluate whether education level is associated with change in cognitive performance.<h4>Design</h4>Prospective cohort study.<h4>Setting</h4>The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, a community-based cohort.<h4>Participants</h4>Nine thousand two hundred sixty-eight ARIC participants who underwent cognitive evaluation at least twice over a 15-year period.<h4>Measurements</h4>Education was evaluated as a predictor of change in word recall, the Digit Symbol Substit ...[more]