How the 1932 and 1947 mental surveys of Aberdeen schoolchildren provide a framework to explore the childhood origins of late onset disease and disability

Lawrence J Whalley; Alison D Murray; Roger T Staff; John M Starr; Ian J Deary; Helen C Fox; Helen Lemmon; Susan J Duthie; Andrew R Collins; John R Crawford

doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2011.05.010

How the 1932 and 1947 mental surveys of Aberdeen schoolchildren provide a framework to explore the childhood origins of late onset disease and disability

Lawrence J Whalley, Alison D Murray, Roger T Staff, John M Starr, Ian J Deary, Helen C Fox, Helen Lemmon, Susan J Duthie, Andrew R Collins, John R Crawford

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To describe the discovery and development of the Aberdeen 1921 and 1936 birth cohort studies.

STUDY DESIGN: The Aberdeen birth cohort studies were started in 1998 when the Scottish Mental Survey archives of the Scottish Council for Research in Education were re-discovered and permissions granted to follow-up survivors born in 1921 or 1936 and then aged about 77 or 64 years and who had entered (or were about to enter) the age of greatest risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Sources of attrition from the study, exposures to childhood adversity, nutritional, genetic and life style factors of possible relevance to extent of age-related cognitive decline and the timing of onset of dementia.

RESULTS: By 2010, the feasibility of following up more than 75% of Scottish Mental Survey survivors living in the Aberdeen area without dementia was well-established, dementia ascertainment to age about 88 years was completed in the 1921 birth cohort and was underway in the 1936 born cohort.

CONCLUSION: These databases are available to other bone fide research groups wishing to test specific hypotheses that may either replicate their own findings or make best use of the data collected in the Aberdeen studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	365-372
Number of pages	8
Journal	Maturitas
Volume	69
Issue number	4
Early online date	23 Jun 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2011.05.010
Publication status	Published - Aug 2011

Keywords

age factors
age of onset
aged
aged, 80 and over
child
child nutritional physiological phenomena
cognition disorders
cohort studies
dementia
evaluation studies as topic
female
follow-up studies
genetic predisposition to disease
health surveys
history, 20th century
humans
life style
male
middle aged
Scotland

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Aberdeen Birth Cohort Study 1936 (ABC 1936)
Craig, L. (Data Manager), University of Aberdeen, 1997
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/aberdeen-birth-cohort/ and one more link, https://www.abdn.ac.uk/birth-cohorts/1936/for-researchers/data-access/?action=subpage (show fewer)
Dataset
Aberdeen Birth Cohort Study 1921 (ABC 1921)
Black, C. (Owner) & Clark, H. (Data Manager), University of Aberdeen, 2008
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/birth-cohorts/1921/
Dataset

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Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Fox, H. C., Lemmon, H., Duthie, S. J., Collins, A. R., & Crawford, J. R. (2011). How the 1932 and 1947 mental surveys of Aberdeen schoolchildren provide a framework to explore the childhood origins of late onset disease and disability. Maturitas, 69(4), 365-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2011.05.010

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How the 1932 and 1947 mental surveys of Aberdeen schoolchildren provide a framework to explore the childhood origins of late onset disease and disability

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Aberdeen Birth Cohort Study 1921 (ABC 1921)

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