Born during World War II: Associations with lower incident dementia
Sotiria Moza, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Georgios M Hadjigeorgiou, Paraskevi Sakka, Mary H Kosmidis · 2025
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Description
Sotiria Moza and colleagues revisit a puzzle: Greeks who spent early childhood in World War II seem to develop dementia less often than the generation after. Stress in early life usually harms late-life thinking, so the pattern jars. Data covered 1,063 older Greeks, 614 exposed to the war at age six or under and 349 born after it ended.
The war-exposed group scored better on visuospatial tasks and a standard mental test, and lower on a dementia rating scale, even after health and mood were counted. They were older and less schooled, which makes the edge stranger. The authors probe family background and other factors behind the gap.
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| CREATOR | Sotiria Moza, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Georgios M Hadjigeorgiou, Paraskevi Sakka, Mary H Kosmidis |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |