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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 23, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):872-873; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi107
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Activity each day keeps dementia away—does social interaction really preserve cognitive function?

J Gallacher1,*, A Bayer1 and Y Ben-Shlomo2

1 University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
2 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

* Corresponding author. John Gallacher, Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, Cardiff University Wales College of Medicine, Biology, Life and Health Science, UK. E-mail: gallacher@Cardiff.ac.uk

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Glei et al.1 observe that reported social activities are inversely related to decline in Mental Status Questionnaire scores in a cohort of 2387 elderly Taiwanese followed-up for 11 years. This is consistent with other studies and extends the observational evidence to an East Asian, albeit industrialized, population. These observations are usually taken as support for the ‘use it or lose it’ hypothesis but could it really be that the social or . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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