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IQ in childhood and the metabolic syndrome in middle age: extended follow-up of the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study [In special issue: Intelligence, health and death: the emerging field of cognitive epidemiology]

IQ in childhood and the metabolic syndrome in middle age: extended follow-up of the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study [In special issue: Intelligence, health and death: the emerging field of cognitive epidemiology]
IQ in childhood and the metabolic syndrome in middle age: extended follow-up of the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study [In special issue: Intelligence, health and death: the emerging field of cognitive epidemiology]
IQ in early adulthood has been inversely associated with risk of the metabolic syndrome in midlife. We tested this association in the British 1946 birth cohort, which assessed IQ at age eight years and ascertained the metabolic syndrome at age 53 years based on modified (non-fasting blood) ATPIII criteria. Childhood IQ was inversely associated with risk of the metabolic syndrome, but this association was almost entirely mediated by educational attainment and achieved occupational social class. This may be consistent with a pattern where childhood IQ is strongly associated with outcomes that reflect neurological disorder, such as the degenerative dementias, but less so with common chronic physical diseases of ageing.
childhood io, metabolic syndrome, 1946 birth cohort
567-572
Richards, Marcus
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Black, Stephanie
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Mishra, Gita
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Gale, Catharine R.
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Deary, Ian J.
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Batty, David G
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Richards, Marcus
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Black, Stephanie
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Mishra, Gita
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Gale, Catharine R.
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Deary, Ian J.
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Batty, David G
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Richards, Marcus, Black, Stephanie, Mishra, Gita, Gale, Catharine R., Deary, Ian J. and Batty, David G (2009) IQ in childhood and the metabolic syndrome in middle age: extended follow-up of the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study [In special issue: Intelligence, health and death: the emerging field of cognitive epidemiology]. Intelligence, 37 (6), 567-572. (doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.09.004).

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Abstract

IQ in early adulthood has been inversely associated with risk of the metabolic syndrome in midlife. We tested this association in the British 1946 birth cohort, which assessed IQ at age eight years and ascertained the metabolic syndrome at age 53 years based on modified (non-fasting blood) ATPIII criteria. Childhood IQ was inversely associated with risk of the metabolic syndrome, but this association was almost entirely mediated by educational attainment and achieved occupational social class. This may be consistent with a pattern where childhood IQ is strongly associated with outcomes that reflect neurological disorder, such as the degenerative dementias, but less so with common chronic physical diseases of ageing.

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Published date: November 2009
Keywords: childhood io, metabolic syndrome, 1946 birth cohort

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Local EPrints ID: 71701
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/71701
PURE UUID: 95d9a00f-1d2b-4cc7-8cb7-f19916063972
ORCID for Catharine R. Gale: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3361-8638

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Date deposited: 18 Dec 2009
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:38

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Author: Marcus Richards
Author: Stephanie Black
Author: Gita Mishra
Author: Ian J. Deary
Author: David G Batty

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