Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly | Zendy

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Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly

Author(s) -

Joe Verghese,

Richard B. Lipton,

Mindy J. Katz,

Charles B. Hall,

Carol A. Derby,

Gail Kuslansky,

Anne Felicia Ambrose,

Martin J. Sliwinski,

Herman Buschke

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa022252

Subject(s) - dementia , hazard ratio , medicine , gerontology , cohort study , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , cohort , proportional hazards model , activities of daily living , physical therapy , disease

Participation in leisure activities has been associated with a lower risk of dementia. It is unclear whether increased participation in leisure activities lowers the risk of dementia or participation in leisure activities declines during the preclinical phase of dementia.

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