Association between adult education, brain volume and dementia risk: longitudinal cohort study of UK Biobank participants.

ABSTRACT: Less childhood education is a potentially modifiable risk factor for developing incident dementia but it is not known if education in later life is protective. We sought to add to previous work by testing the association between adult education and brain volume as well as exploring the impact of continuing adult education versus intermittent participation. We used data from participants of the UK Biobank cohort, with no prevalent dementia who were asked about adult education participation at baseline and at follow-up. Dementia status was ascertained from self-report or electronic health records. Cox proportional hazards models were built to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) between participation in adult education and dementia risk. In 499,337 participants aged between 40 and 69 at baseline wit

SUBMITTER: Jin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11872847 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature