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Article: Study links low childhood IQ to dementia
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 26, 2008
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London, June 26 -- Lower IQ in children is a possible risk factor for vascular dementia later in life, according to a new study.
Vascular dementia is the most common kind of dementia after Alzheimer's and occurs when blood flow to the brain is impaired.
The study, by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, examined 173 people who took a test of their mental ability in 1932 when they were about 11 years old and later developed dementia.
This group was compared to one set of control participants of the same age and gender. For another group of controls, the researchers made sure that the cases and controls came from ...