Cognition and Incident Dementia Hospitalization: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Author(s) -
Andrea L.C. Schneider,
Rebecca F. Gottesman,
Thomas H. Mosley,
Álvaro Alonso,
David S. Knopman,
Josef Coresh,
A. Richey Sharrett,
Elizabeth Selvin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000342308
Subject(s) - digit symbol substitution test , medicine , dementia , hazard ratio , trail making test , confidence interval , cognition , prospective cohort study , cognitive decline , population , cohort , neuropsychology , psychiatry , disease , pathology , alternative medicine , environmental health , placebo
Cognitive decline is a defining feature of dementia. We sought to determine if a single baseline cognitive test score or change in test score over time is more strongly associated with risk of dementia hospitalization. We also sought to compare short- and long-term dementia risk.
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