Risk factors for late-life cognitive decline and variation with age and sex in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study.

An aging population brings increasing burdens and costs to individuals and society arising from late-life cognitive decline, the causes of which are unclear. We aimed to identify factors predicting late-life cognitive decline.Participants were 889 community-dwelling 70-90-year-olds from the Sydney M...

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Main Authors: Darren M Lipnicki, Perminder S Sachdev, John Crawford, Simone Reppermund, Nicole A Kochan, Julian N Trollor, Brian Draper, Melissa J Slavin, Kristan Kang, Ora Lux, Karen A Mather, Henry Brodaty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3683032?pdf=render