Instrumental variable approaches to identifying the causal effect of educational attainment on dementia risk

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-76.e3

  Nguyen, Thu T ^a   Tchetgen, Eric J Tchetgen ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Gilman, Stephen E ^b,c   Walter, Stefan ^a   Liu, Sze Y ^d   Manly, Jennifer J ^e   Glymour, M Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^e Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Dementia; Education; Instrumental variables; Unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEACHER; AGED; EDUCATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PROTECTION; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION, NONPROFESSIONAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949519346     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.10.006     Document Type: Article

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