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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2018

Cohort Profile Update: The Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936.

Adele M Taylor, Alison Pattie, Ian J Deary

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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145citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

145 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Cognitive dedifferentiation in later life: longitudinal findings from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026
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85 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Adele M TaylorDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Alison PattieDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Ian J DearyDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 15/SAG09977Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F019394/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council MR/K026992/1Chief Scientist Office CZB/4/505Chief Scientist Office CZG/3/2/79Chief Scientist Office ETM/55Medical Research Council G0701120Medical Research Council G1001245Medical Research Council MR/K026992/1Medical Research Council MR/M013111/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CognitionAgedAged, 80 and overAgingCardiovascular DiseasesCohort StudiesDNA MethylationEpigenomicsFemaleHumansIntelligence TestsLife StyleMaleNeuroimagingScotlandWhole Genome Sequencing

Identifiers

PMID29546429
PMCPMC6124629

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