Education Appears To Have Long-lasting Protective Effect In Cognitive Aging, Even At 90+ Years, According To Small, Long-term Cohort Study

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Article URL: http://plos.io/4nrerv4

Article title: Midlife and old-age cardiovascular risk factors, educational attainment, and cognition at 90-years – population-based study with 48-years of follow-up

Author countries: Finland

Funding: This work was supported by the Finnish Brain Foundation [to A.V]; Orion Research Foundation [to P.I.M]; The Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation [to P.I.M]; Juho Vainio Foundation [to S.A]; Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics [grant number 352792 to J.K]; NONAGINTA data collection was funded by the Research Council of Finland [grant numbers 320109, 345988 to E.V]; the Research Council of Finland [grant number 314639 to E.V], and the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation Senior Fellowship [to E.V]. The funders played no role in the design, execution, analysis, or interpretation of data, or writing of the study.

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