Gender-Specific Influence of Education in Cognitive Subdomains in Mild Cognitive Impairment : A Clinical Research Center for Dementia of South Korea Study
Journal of Korean Geriatric Psychiatry
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: 87-95, 2016.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-67356
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study aimed to find the sex differences of the way how educational attainment influence on cognitive function in the mild cognitive impairment patients.METHODS:
A total of 1,704 patients were recruited from a large hospital-based multi-center cohort. Cognitive subdomains were evaluated using the Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery-Dementia version. We employed multiple linear regression analysis to compare the score of cognitive subdomains between the groups with high versus low educational attainment based on the high school graduate. Interaction between educational attainment and sex was also included in the analysisRESULTS:
High and low educational attainment group had 41.2% and 58.8% of patients in the study population. In the multiple regression analysis, score of all cognitive subdomains were significantly higher in the high educational attainment group. The score of attention, language, and visuospatial function were also significantly affected by interaction between educational attainment and sex.CONCLUSION:
In the female patients, educational attainment showed higher influence on the attention, language, and visuospatial function score.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Linear Models
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Mass Screening
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Cohort Studies
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Sex Characteristics
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Cognition
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Dementia
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Education
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Cognitive Reserve
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Cognitive Dysfunction
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Seoul
Type of study:
Controlled clinical trial
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Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
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Screening study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Geriatric Psychiatry
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
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