Open AccessCognitive consequences of overweight and obesity in the ninth decade of life?
Author(s) -
Anna K. Dahl Aslan,
J. M. Starr,
Alison Pattie,
Ian J. Deary
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afu108
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , body mass index , obesity , demography , cognition , cognitive decline , cohort , population , gerontology , longitudinal study , cohort study , dementia , pediatrics , psychiatry , environmental health , disease , pathology , sociology
he association between late-life obesity and late-life cognitive abilities is poorly understood. We studied the association between body mass index (BMI) and cognitive change in longitudinal population-based study spanning over the ninth decade of life.
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