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Age-associated cognitive decline in healthy old people
Author(s)	John M Starr, Ian J Deary, Susan Inch
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 26, no 4, July 1997
Pages	pp 295-300
Keywords	Cognitive impairment ; Good Health ; Ill health ; Drugs ; Screening ; Longitudinal surveys ; Edinburgh.
Annotation	The authors examined the effects of incident disease and drug prescription on cognitive change in a sample of initially healthy people aged 70 and over in Edinburgh, in a longitudinal study, and related these to age, education, social class, and blood pressure. Subjects were administered the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and National Adult Reading Test (NART); those still available were retested four years later. There was no significant difference in cognitive decline between those who had and those who had not started medication. The study failed to support the hypothesis that cognitive decline can be attributed to age alone in healthy old people.
Accession Number	CPA-970829220 A
Classmark	E4: CD: CH: LLD: 3V: 3J: 9SD
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