More education may not protect against dementia
November 2020
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
The researchers compared the different educational lengths with dementia diagnoses of 1.3 million Swedish people born between 1920 and 1936. Analyses indicated very small or negligible causal effects of education on dementia risk. These findings suggest that education alone cannot be uncritically considered as a modifiable risk factor for dementia.
Does prolonged education causally affect dementia risk when adult socioeconomic status is not altered? A Swedish natural experiment on 1.3 million individuals
Dominika Seblova
Added on: 12-18-2020
[1] https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa255/5998638?redirectedFrom=fulltext
