Role of age, education, and gender on cognitive performance in the framingham heart study: Community-based norms

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 201-235

  Elias, Merrill F ^a   Elias, Penelope K ^b   D'agostino, Ralph B ^b   Silbershatz, Halit ^b   Wolf, Philip A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; CORONARY RISK; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; EDUCATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0030837826     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610739708254281     Document Type: Article

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