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| Education as protector against dementia, but what exactly do we mean by education? | | Author(s) | Francisca S Then, Tobias Luck, Matthias C Angermeyer |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 45, no 4, July 2016 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, July 2016 |
| Pages | pp 523-528 |
| Source | www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; At risk ; Preventative medicine ; Education ; University education ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Even though a number of research studies have shown that higher education has protective effects against dementia, some studies did not observe such a significant effect. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare various operationalisation approaches of education and how they impact dementia risk within one sample. Data were derived from the Leipzig longitudinal study of the aged. Individuals aged 75 and older underwent six cognitive assessments at an interval of 1.5 years and a final follow-up 15 years after the baseline assessment. The study operationalised education according to different approaches used in previous studies and analysed the impact on dementia incidence via multivariate Cox regression modelling. The results showed that whether education is identified as a significant protector against dementia strongly depends on the operationalisation of education. Whereas the pure number of years of education showed statistically significant protective effects on dementia risk, other more complex categorical classification approaches did not. Moreover, completing 10 or more years of education seems to be an important threshold to significantly reduce dementia risk. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160805223 A |
| Classmark | EA: CA3: LK2: V: V7M: 3J |
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