NEW YORK, June 6 ― New US research has found that education appears to have a protective effect against memory loss in older adults, especially among women. Carried out by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, the new study looked at 704 Taiwanese adults aged 58 to 98 years of age...
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NEW YORK, June 6 ― New US research has found that education appears to have a protective effect against memory loss in older adults, especially among women. During the test, participants were shown drawings of objects and asked to recall them several minutes later. The researchers also recorded how many years of education each participant had completed, ranging from none at all to finishing their graduate studies., showed that perhaps unsurprisingly, the participants' performance on the test became worse with age.
This protective effect was also particularly strong among women, with the team finding that the memory gains associated with each year of education were five times larger than the losses experienced during each year of aging among female participants, and two times larger among the male participants.
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