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Transitions in cognitive test scores over 5 and 10 years in elderly people: Evidence for a model of age-related deficit accumulation

BACKGROUND: On average, health worsens with age, but many people have periods of improvement. A stochastic model provides an excellent description of how such changes occur. Given that cognition also changes with age, we wondered whether the same model might also describe the accumulation of errors...

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Autores principales: Mitnitski, Arnold, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18282295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-8-3