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SUBMITTER: Nguyen TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4688127 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nguyen Thu T TT Tchetgen Tchetgen Eric J EJ Kawachi Ichiro I Gilman Stephen E SE Walter Stefan S Liu Sze Y SY Manly Jennifer J JJ Glymour M Maria MM
Annals of epidemiology 20151030 1
<h4>Purpose</h4>Education is an established correlate of cognitive status in older adulthood, but whether expanding educational opportunities would improve cognitive functioning remains unclear given limitations of prior studies for causal inference. Therefore, we conducted instrumental variable (IV) analyses of the association between education and dementia risk, using for the first time in this area, genetic variants as instruments as well as state-level school policies.<h4>Methods</h4>IV anal ...[more]