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Longitudinal data on cognitive and physical aging in the elderly
Description
The dataset consists in a subsample of the Paquid prospective cohort study. Repeated measures cognitive measures (MMSE, IST, BVRT psychometric tests), physical dependency (HIER) and depression sympatomatology (CESD) were collected over a maximum period of 20 years along with dementia information (age at dementia diagnosis, dementia diagnosis information). Time-independent socio-demographic information is also provided (CEP, male, age_init).
Format
A data frame with 2250 observations over 500 subjects and 12 variables:
- ID
subject identification number
- MMSE
score at the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), a psychometric test of global cognitive functioning (integer in range 0-30)
- BVRT
score at the Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT), a psychometric test of spatial memory (integer in range 0-15)
- IST
score at the Isaacs Set Test (IST) truncated at 15 seconds, a test of verbal memory (integer in range 0-40)
- HIER
score of physical dependency (0=no dependency, 1=mild dependency, 2=moderate dependency, 3=severe dependency)
- CESD
score of a short self-report scale CES-D designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population (integer in range 0-52)
- age
age at the follow-up visit
- dem
indicator of positive diagnosis of dementia
- agedem
age at dementia diagnosis for
dem=1
and at last contact fordem=0
- age_init
age at entry in the cohort
- CEP
binary indicator of educational level (
CEP=1
for subjects who graduated from primary school;CEP=0
otherwise)- male
binary indicator for gender (
male=1
for men;male=0
for women)
References
Letenneur, L., Commenges, D., Dartigues, J. F., & Barberger-Gateau, P. (1994). Incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in elderly community residents of southwestern France. International Journal of Epidemiology, 23 (6), 1256-61.
Examples
summary(paquid)