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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Contribution of IQ in young adulthood to the associations of education and occupation with cognitive ability in older age |
| Creators Name: | Feinkohl, I., Kozma, P., Borchers, F., van Montfort, S.J.T., Kruppa, J., Winterer, G., Spies, C. and Pischon, T. |
| Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Studies suggest that a higher education and occupation are each associated with a higher late-life cognitive ability, but their inter-relationships in their association with cognitive ability and the contribution of peak IQ in young adulthood ('pre-morbid IQ') often remain unclear. METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of 623 participants aged ≥65 years of the BioCog study. Education was coded according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED; range 1 to 6). Occupation was coded as 'semi/unskilled', 'skilled manual', 'skilled non-manual', 'managerial', 'professional'. A summary score of global ability (‘g’) was constructed from six cognitive tests. Pre-morbid IQ was estimated from vocabulary. The Geriatric Depression Scale assessed symptoms of depression. Age- and sex-adjusted analyses of covariance were performed. RESULTS: Education (partial eta2 0.076; p < 0.001) and occupation (partial eta2 = 0.037; p < 0.001) were each significantly associated with g. For education, the association was attenuated but remained statistically significant when pre-morbid IQ was controlled for (partial eta2 0.036; p < 0.001) and was unchanged with additional adjustment for depression (partial eta2 0.037; p < 0.001). For occupation, the association with g was no longer significant when pre-morbid IQ (partial eta2 = 0.015; p = 0.06) and depression (partial eta2 = 0.011; p = 0.18) were entered as covariates in separate steps. When education and occupation were entered concurrently into the fully adjusted model, only education was independently associated with g (partial eta2 0.030; p < 0.001; occupation, p = 0.93). CONCLUSION: While a higher education and a higher occupation were each associated with a higher late-life cognitive ability, only for education some unique contribution to cognitive ability remained over and above its relationship with pre-morbid IQ, depression, and occupation. Further research is needed to address whether a longer time spent in education may promote late-life cognitive ability. |
| Keywords: | Cognitive Epidemiology, Cognitive Ageing, Education, Occupation, Pre-Morbid IQ |
| Source: | BMC Geriatrics |
| ISSN: | 1471-2318 |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | 346 |
| Date: | 5 June 2021 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02290-y |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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