Kicking Back Cognitive Ageing: Leg Power Predicts Cognitive Ageing after Ten Years in Older Female Twins | Zendy

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Kicking Back Cognitive Ageing: Leg Power Predicts Cognitive Ageing after Ten Years in Older Female Twins

Author(s) -

Claire J. Steves,

Mitul Mehta,

Stephen H. Jackson,

Tim D. Spector

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

gerontology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.397

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1423-0003

pISSN - 0304-324X

DOI - 10.1159/000441029

Subject(s) - ageing , twin study , cognition , cognitive decline , confounding , medicine , population , gerontology , blood pressure , dementia , psychology , demography , physical therapy , disease , biology , genetics , environmental health , heritability , psychiatry , sociology

Many observational studies have shown a protective effect of physical activity on cognitive ageing, but interventional studies have been less convincing. This may be due to short time scales of interventions, suboptimal interventional regimes or lack of lasting effect. Confounding through common genetic and developmental causes is also possible.

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