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Higher educational attainment (Years of Schooling) causally protects against Alzheimer's disease.
Education and lifelong learning contribute to protection against Alzheimer's disease. While you cannot change your past education, engaging in cognitively stimulating activities and continuous learning may help build cognitive reserve.
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We identify a number of causal associations including... a protective effect of EduYears against Alzheimer’s disease.
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Uses large-scale GWAS summary data and Mendelian randomization.
Source
Causal associations between risk factors and common diseases inferred from GWAS summary data
Zhihong Zhu et al. · Nature Communications · 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-02317-2
cohort · n=405072Cited 991×
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