Educational Influences on Late-Life Health: Genetic Propensity and Attained Education.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The educational gradient in late-life health is well established. Despite this, there are still ambiguities concerning the role of underlying confounding by genetic influences and gene-environment (GE) interplay. Here, we investigate the role of educational factors (attained and genetic propensities) on health and mortality in late life using genetic propensity for educational attainment (as measured by a genome-wide polygenic score, PGSEdu) and attained education.

Methods

By utilizing genetically informative twin data from the Swedish Twin Registry (n = 14,570), we investigated influences of the educational measures, familial confounding as well as the possible presence of passive GE correlation on both objective and subjective indicators of late-life health, tha

SUBMITTER: Ericsson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10745256 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature