Of the nearly 1,600 people in the later cohort, for instance, about 40 percent demonstrated mild to severe dementia, scoring below normal on cognitive tests.
Instead, he said, "the later cohort had a lot of things on their side that we can't disentangle," like better diet and living conditions, improved medical care, a stronger economy, more stimulation from sources like radio and television.
Patients who had amputations between 1956 and 1973 (earlier cohort) were compared with those who had amputations between 1974 and 1995 (later cohort).
There was one respect in which the later cohort of Ph.D. graduates did worse than the earlier cohort.
In addition, conditional on age at arrival, the later cohort (1992-1994) has a higher probability to drop out of high school than the earlier cohort.
Patients in the later cohort were more likely to have a below-knee amputation (P<.001) and cerebrovascular disease (P=.008) and to be discharged to a nursing home (P<.001).
The authors find that the association between educational attainment and the polygenic score constructed from their GWAS is roughly half as large among Swedish individuals in later cohort, suggesting that the Swedish reforms reduced the effects of genetic variants in generating differences in educational attainment.
Other outcomes may manifest in a later cohort of graduates.
There was a trend towards higher discharge weight percentiles in the later cohort.
Therefore, the patients in the later cohort II may have benefitted from the greater variety of treatment options.
Demographic characteristics of pre-TC and TC private women were similar apart from the later cohort being older.
