Education provides no protection against Alzheimer's disease
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 35 (12) , 1781
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.35.12.1781
Abstract
It has been suggested that educational achievement confers protection against dementia. We examined educational level and age of onset in 28 patients with Alzheimer's disease, and assessed the progression of dementia over a mean period of 28 months using both a measure of neurobehavioral status and an index of functional impairment. No protective effect of education was found in either early- or late-onset dementia.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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