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Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for dementia death: individual participant meta-analysis of 86 508 men and women from the UK.
- Source :
- British Journal of Psychiatry; Jul2013, Vol. 203 Issue 1, p10-17, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Life-course socioeconomic factors may have a role in dementia aetiology but there is a current paucity of studies. Meta-analyses of individual participant data would considerably strengthen this evidence base.<bold>Aims: </bold>To examine the association between socioeconomic status in early life and adulthood with later dementia death.<bold>Method: </bold>Individual participant meta-analysis of 11 prospective cohort studies (1994-2004, n = 86 508).<bold>Results: </bold>Leaving full-time education at an earlier age was associated with an increased risk of dementia death in women (fully adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for age ≤14 v. age ≥16: HR = 1.76, 95% CI 1.23-2.53) but not men. Occupational social class was not statistically significantly associated with dementia death in men or women.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Lower educational attainment in women was associated with an increased risk of dementia-related death independently of common risk behaviours and comorbidities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HEALTH & social status
DEMENTIA patients
MORTALITY risk factors
EDUCATIONAL attainment
SOCIAL status
WOMEN'S mortality
COMPARATIVE studies
DEMENTIA
HEALTH behavior
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
META-analysis
PROGNOSIS
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
RISK-taking behavior
SMOKING
SOCIAL classes
SURVEYS
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
EVALUATION research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071250
- Volume :
- 203
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 89482993
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.112.119479