Verbal memory and search speed in early midlife are associated with mortality over 25 years’ follow-up, independently of health status and early life factors: a British birth cohort study. | Zendy

Daniel Davis | Zendy; Rachel Cooper | Zendy; Graciela MuñizTerrera | Zendy; Rebecca Hardy | Zendy; Marcus Richards | Zendy; Diana Kuh | Zendy

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Verbal memory and search speed in early midlife are associated with mortality over 25 years’ follow-up, independently of health status and early life factors: a British birth cohort study.

Author(s) -

Daniel Davis,

Rachel Cooper,

Graciela MuñizTerrera,

Rebecca Hardy,

Marcus Richards,

Diana Kuh

Publication year - 2016

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/dyw100

Subject(s) - comorbidity , cognition , demography , medicine , cohort study , gerontology , cohort , life course approach , mortality rate , cohort effect , psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , pathology , sociology

Cognitive capabilities in childhood and in late life are inversely associated with mortality rates. However, it is unclear if adult cognition, at a time still relatively free from comorbidity, is associated with subsequent mortality, and whether this explains the associations of early life factors with adult mortality.

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