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Childhood cognitive ability and deaths up until middle age: a post-war birth cohort study

Author(s) -

Diana Kuh

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyh043

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , demography , medicine , hazard ratio , cohort study , cohort , cognition , proportional hazards model , gerontology , pediatrics , population , confidence interval , environmental health , psychiatry , surgery , sociology

Childhood IQ has been related to mortality in later life in four studies. Cognitive ability may be a mediator between early disadvantage and mortality, a marker of the efficiency of information processing in the central nervous system, or predict entry to safe adult environments or healthy behaviours. We examined mortality in relation to cognitive ability at age 8 years in a birth cohort and investigated these possible reasons.

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