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Parental education and late-life dementia in the United States.

Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology - 1 Mar 2009

Rogers Mary A M, Plassman Brenda L, Kabeto Mohammed, Fisher Gwenith G, McArdle John J, Llewellyn David J, Potter Guy G, Langa Kenneth M

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We investigated the relation between parental education and dementia in the United States. Participants in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study were included, with information regarding parental education obtained from the Health and Retirement Study. The odds of dementia in elderly Americans whose mothers had less then 8 years of schooling were twice (95% CI, 1.1-3.8) that of individuals with higher...

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PMID: 19073840
DOI: 10.1177/0891988708328220
PMCID: PMC2670459

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