Premorbid (early life) IQ and later mortality risk: systematic review

GD Batty, IJ Deary, LS Gottfredson - Annals of epidemiology, 2007 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Studies of middle-aged and particularly older-aged adults found that those with
higher scores on tests of IQ (cognitive function) had lower rates of later mortality …

Literacy and learning in health care

MS Wolf, EAH Wilson, DN Rapp, KR Waite… - …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
The relationship between literacy and health outcomes are well documented in adult
medicine, yet specific causal pathways are not entirely clear. Despite an incomplete …

5 year mortality predictors in 498 103 UK Biobank participants: a prospective population-based study

A Ganna, E Ingelsson - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background To our knowledge, a systematic comparison of predictors of mortality in middle-
aged to elderly individuals has not yet been done. We investigated predictors of mortality in …

Poor cognitive function and risk of severe hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes: post hoc epidemiologic analysis of the ACCORD trial

Z Punthakee, ME Miller, LJ Launer… - Diabetes …, 2012 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Self-management of type 2 diabetes including avoidance of hypoglycemia is
complex, but the impact of cognition on safe self-management is not well understood. This …

Association between lower digit symbol substitution test score and slower gait and greater risk of mortality and of developing incident disability in well‐functioning …

C Rosano, AB Newman, R Katz… - Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether, in well‐functioning older adults, a lower score on the
Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) and slower gait are associated with greater risk of …

Health literacy, cognitive abilities, and mortality among elderly persons

DW Baker, MS Wolf, J Feinglass… - Journal of general internal …, 2008 - Springer
Background Low health literacy and low cognitive abilities both predict mortality, but no
study has jointly examined these relationships. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort …

The resources that matter: fundamental social causes of health disparities and the challenge of intelligence

BG Link, JC Phelan, R Miech… - Journal of health and …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
A robust and very persistent association between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES)
and the onset of life-threatening disease is a prominent concern of medical sociology. The …

Gait speed predicts decline in attention and psychomotor speed in older adults: the health aging and body composition study

M Inzitari, AB Newman, K Yaffe, R Boudreau… - …, 2008 - karger.com
Abstract Background/Aims: Gait speed is cross-sectionally associated with attention and
psychomotor speed in older community dwellers. It is unclear if gait speed predicts decline …

Long working hours and cognitive function: the Whitehall II Study

M Virtanen, A Singh-Manoux, JE Ferrie… - American journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This study examined the association between long working hours and cognitive function in
middle age. Data were collected in 1997–1999 (baseline) and 2002–2004 (follow-up) from a …

Personality and health: A lifespan perspective.

SE Hampson, HS Friedman - 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
It is time to bury the old models of personality and health and replace them with theories and
models that employ the most modern concepts from personality psychology. It has long been …