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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2007 May 21;92(1-2):232–237. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.05.042

Table 1.

Case control and co-twin control analyses predicting risk for dementia

Case Control

EDUCATION Cases
(N = 394)
Unrelated Controls
(N = 7786)
OR a 95% CI
Compulsory 305 4435
Higher 89 3351 1.77 1.38, 2.28

Co-Twin Control (N = 33 monozygotic pairs)

Co-twin
OR 95% CI
EDUCATION Compulsory Higher

Case Compulsory 6 19 3.17 1.26, 7.93
Higher 6 2
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odds ratios controlling for age and sex