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2. Cognitive Decline:<br />

The Whitehall II Prospective Cohort Study<br />

The objectives were to estimate 10-year decline<br />

in cognitive function from 5198 men and 2192<br />

women office based civil servants, aged 45-70.<br />

Tests of memory, reasoning, vocabulary, and<br />

phonemic and semantic fluency, were assessed<br />

three times over 10 years. All cognitive scores,<br />

except vocabulary, declined in all age categories,<br />

with evidence of faster decline in older people.<br />

A Singh-Manoux et al., BMJ 2012; 244:d7622 (UK, France)

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