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Article: Low childhood IQ linked to dementia in old age
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 26, 2008
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Washington, June 26 -- A person's IQ in childhood may predict his or her odds of getting a common form of dementia in old age, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that children with lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high Iqs.
The most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia occurs when blood flow to the brain is impaired.
The study examined 173 people in Scotland 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 ...