Biological Age and 12-Year Cognitive Change in Older Adults: Findings from the Victoria Longitudinal Study

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 64-81

  MacDonald, Stuart W S ^a,c   Dixon, Roger A ^a,b   Cohen, Anna Lisa ^a   Hazlitt, Janine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

12 year cognitive change; Biological age; Physiological status; Sensory function

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL ACUITY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; COGNITION DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HEARING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SYSTOLE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1242329054     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075557     Document Type: Article

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