Age-associated cognitive decline in healthy old people
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Age-associated cognitive decline in healthy old people.
BACKGROUND disease often confounds the identification of risk factors for age-associated cognitive decline in elderly subjects. If the cognitive effects of ageing are to be distinguished from those of disease, healthy people need to be studied. METHODS we examined the effects of incident disease and drug prescription on cognitive change in a sample of initially healthy old people in a longitu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.4.295