ReviewNature human behaviour2021
Intelligence, health and death.
Review in Nature human behaviour, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Independent Associations of Education, Intelligence, and Cognition With Hypertension and the Mediating Effects of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2023Pooled it
- Adolescent intelligence and imaging-detected atherosclerosis in middle age: a population study of Swedish men.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Cognitive ability following exposure to parental mental disorders and other childhood adversities: a population-based cohort study of Danish males in late adolescence.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- The relationship between the gut microbiota and neuropsychological development and behaviour during childhood and adolescence: a systematic review of epidemiological studies.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Review
- Deep Beats, Deep Thoughts? Predicting General Cognitive Ability from Natural Music-Listening Behavior.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Effect sizes of APOE e4 on the same general cognitive ability test taken by the same people from age 11 to age 90: The Lothian Birth Cohorts 1921 and 1936.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Adolescent cognitive function and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A retrospective population-based cohort study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Challenges and opportunities of psychological aging research.European journal of ageing · 2025Review
- Adolescent Intelligence and Imaging-Based Atherosclerosis in middle age: A Population Study of Swedish Men.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Adolescent IQ and performance-based measures of physical function in old age: a 54-year longitudinal study.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Neurocognitive Functions, and Long-Term Mortality Risk.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Adolescent Body Mass Index, Weight Trajectories to Adulthood, and Osteoporosis Risk.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Intelligence and Dietary Habits: An International Study of Mensa Members.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Impact of public health and patient-centered prevention strategies on periodontitis and caries as causes of tooth loss in high-income countries.Periodontology 2000 · 2025Review
- Multilevel multiverse meta-analysis indicates lower IQ as a risk factor for physical and mental illness.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Effect of strategic memory advanced reasoning training (SMART) therapy for enhancing final-year high school students career choices.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The Path for Men from Young Adulthood Results of Cognitive Tests to Subclinical Atherosclerosis at Age 60: The Mediating Role of Socioeconomic Status, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors-Results from a VIPVIZA Study.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Paternal intelligence affects school grades in children with and without ADHD - a register-based study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Lessons we learned from the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936.Genomic psychiatry : advancing science from genes to society · 2025Article
- School performance and the social gradient in young adult death in Norway.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
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Abstract
The field of cognitive epidemiology studies the prospective associations between cognitive abilities and health outcomes. We review research in this field over the past decade and describe how our understanding of the association between intelligence and all-cause mortality has consolidated with the appearance of new, population-scale data. To try to understand the association better, we discuss how intelligence relates to specific causes of death, diseases/diagnoses and biomarkers of health through the adult life course. We examine the extent to which mortality and health associations with intelligence might be attributable to people's differences in education, other indicators of socioeconomic status, health literacy and adult environments and behaviours. Finally, we discuss whether genetic data provide new tools to understand parts of the intelligence-health associations. Social epidemiologists, differential psychologists and behavioural and statistical geneticists, among others, contribute to cognitive epidemiology; advances will occur by building on a common cross-disciplinary knowledge base.
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