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Identifying dementia using medical data linkage in a longitudinal cohort study: Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
1 May 2023
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BACKGROUND: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) is a longitudinal study of ageing with well-characterised assessments, but until now, it has relied on self-report or proxies for dementia such as cognitive tests. Our aims were twofold: a) to describe a framework for identifying dementia in a cohort study. b) to report the age-specific incidence and prevalence of all-cause dementia and dementia subtypes in 865...
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