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- Research published in 2020 by The Lancet Commission that examined dementia interventions found 7% of worldwide dementia cases could be prevented by increasing early-life education. The study found higher childhood education levels and higher lifelong educational attainment could reduce dementia risk.
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Jul 30, 2020 · Research presented at the 2020 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference suggests that higher quality early-life education is linked to better language and memory performance, and lower risk of dementia.
Jul 23, 2010 · Our study shows education in early life appears to enable some people to cope with a lot of changes in their brain before showing dementia symptoms." Compared with previous research, this study was able to answer the question because of its large size and statistical power.
EARLY LIFE COGNITION, EDUCATION, AND DEMENTIA RISK. Pamela Herd, Victoria Williams, and Kamil Sicinski. Author information Copyright and License information PMC Disclaimer. Abstract. Educational attainment is one of the strongest predictors of Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (ADRD).
How can a relatively small number of years of formal education occurring early in life affect risk for dementia in old age? This review advances the literature by providing a broad systematic review of both dementia prevalence and incidence studies.
Jul 18, 2024 · General cognitive ability early in life influences later-life risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. An NIA-funded study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia found that adolescent cognition predicted dementia risk in older adulthood, in part through its association with educational attainment.
Early-life (younger than 45 years) risks, such as less education, affect cognitive reserve; midlife (45–65 years), and later-life (older than 65 years) risk factors influence reserve and triggering of neuropathological developments.
Jul 26, 2021 · The contribution of educational inequities in early life to disparities in the incidence of dementia in later life is perhaps the best studied of the socioeconomic factors (Walsemann and Ailshire, 2020). The causal evidence linking education and dementia risk includes both observational and quasi-experimental findings in many settings.
