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Individual Risk for Cognitive Impairment Declining, But Associated With More Rapid Mortality
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Title Individual Risk for Cognitive Impairment Declining, But Associated With More Rapid Mortality
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/571768?src=rss
Description A new study shows that fewer older Americans reached the threshold of cognitive impairment in 2002 than in 1993. There was a more rapid decline to death among those who did, however, supporting a hypothesis of "compression" of cognitive morbidity, researchers say. Medscape Medical News
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Date Mar 21, 2008
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