Role of cognitive ability in the association between functional health literacy and mortality in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We investigated the role that childhood and old age cognitive ability play in the association between functional health literacy and mortality.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

This study used data from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) study, which recruited participants living in the Lothian region of Scotland when aged 70 years, most of whom had completed an intelligence test at age 11 years.

Participants

795 members of the LBC1936 with scores on tests of functional health literacy and cognitive ability in childhood and older adulthood.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Participants were followed up for 8 years to determine mortality. Time to death in days was used as the primary outcome measure.

Results

Using Cox

SUBMITTER: Fawns-Ritchie C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6144414 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature