Does selective survival before study enrolment attenuate estimated effects of education on rate of cognitive decline in older adults? A simulation approach for quantifying survival bias in life course epidemiology | Zendy

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda | Zendy; Teresa Filshtein | Zendy; Yorghos Tripodis | Zendy; M. Maria Glymour | Zendy; Alden L. Gross | Zendy

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Does selective survival before study enrolment attenuate estimated effects of education on rate of cognitive decline in older adults? A simulation approach for quantifying survival bias in life course epidemiology

Author(s) -

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda,

Teresa Filshtein,

Yorghos Tripodis,

M. Maria Glymour,

Alden L. Gross

Publication year - 2018

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/dyy124

Subject(s) - cognitive decline , demography , cognition , gerontology , confidence interval , life course approach , epidemiology , life expectancy , collider , psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , population , dementia , sociology , disease , psychiatry , physics , nuclear physics

The relationship between education and late-life cognitive decline is controversial. Selective survival between early life, when education is typically completed, and late life, when cognitive ageing studies take place, could attenuate effect estimates.

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