Education and incident Alzheimer's disease: A biased association due to selective attrition and use of a two-step diagnostic procedure?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 492-497

  Geerlings, Mirjam I ^a,b   Schmand, Ben ^c   Jonker, Cees ^a,b   Lindeboom, Jaap ^a,b   Bouter, Lex M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Education; Incidence; Mini Mental State Examination; Selective attrition

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0032994661     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.3.492     Document Type: Article

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