Education and the moderating roles of age, sex, ethnicity and apolipoprotein epsilon 4 on the risk of cognitive impairment

Makkar, Steve R.; Lipnicki, Darren; Crawford, John; Kochan, Nicole A; Castro-Costa, Erico; Satler Diniz, Breno; Brayne, Carol; Stephan, Blossom CM; Matthews, Fiona E; Llibre-Rodriquez, Juan J; Anstey, Kaarin; Cherbuin, Nicolas

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Education and the moderating roles of age, sex, ethnicity and apolipoprotein epsilon 4 on the risk of cognitive impairment

Date

2020

Authors

Makkar, Steve R.

Lipnicki, Darren

Crawford, John

Kochan, Nicole A

Castro-Costa, Erico

Satler Diniz, Breno

Brayne, Carol

Stephan, Blossom CM

Matthews, Fiona E

Llibre-Rodriquez, Juan J

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Abstract

We examined how the relationship between education and latelife cognitive impairment (defined as a Mini Mental State Examination score below 24) is influenced by age, sex, ethnicity, and Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 (APOE*4).