Cognition and all-cause mortality across the entire adult age range: Health and lifestyle survey

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-24

  Shipley, Beverly A ^a   Der, Geoff ^b   Taylor, Michelle D ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Information processing speed; Mortality; Social position

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESTYLE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REACTION TIME; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33744472756     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000195867.66643.0f     Document Type: Review

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