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Article: Health: Low childhood IQ may cause dementia.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- June 29, 2008
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Karachi, June 29 (PPI): Low IQ in childhood may make one more vulnerable to developing a common form of dementia in old age. Vascular dementia that results in vascular lesions in the brain is the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimers disease. To explore the origins of dementia, researchers in Scotland looked at the school records of 173 men and women, all of who were born in 1921. Each had participated in a standardised survey of mental health and ability conducted they were about 11 years old.All the patients had been diagnosed with some form of dementia at some point after the age of 65. Almost half of the dementia cases were classified as ...