Cognitive and social activities and long-term dementia risk: the prospective UK Million Women Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although dementia is associated with non-participation in cognitive and social activities, this association might merely reflect the consequences of dementia, rather than any direct effect of non-participation on the subsequent incidence of dementia. Because of the slowness with which dementia can develop, unbiased assessment of any such direct effects must relate non-participation in such activities to dementia detection rates many years later. Prospective studies with long-term follow-up can help achieve this by analysing separately the first and second decade of follow-up. We report such analyses of a large, 20-year study.

Methods

The UK Million Women Study is a population-based prospective study of 1·3 million women invited for National Health Service (NHS) br

SUBMITTER: Floud S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7848753 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature