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datestamp: 2019-03-14 11:47:05
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creators_name: Fancourt, D
creators_name: Steptoe, A
title: Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: D12
divisions: J96
keywords: Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, WATCHING TELEVISION, ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE, PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY, BRAIN-ACTIVITY, ASSOCIATIONS, DEMENTIA, MEMORY, RISK, LIFE, HIPPOCAMPUS
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abstract: There has been significant interest in the effects of television on cognition in children, but much less
research has been carried out into the effects in older adults. This study aimed to explore whether
television viewing behaviours in adults aged 50 or over are associated with a decline in cognition.
Using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging involving 3,662 adults aged 50+, we used
multivariate linear regression models to explore longitudinal associations between baseline television
watching (2008/2009) and cognition 6 years later (2014/2015) while controlling for demographic factors,
socio-economic status, depression, physical health, health behaviours and a range of other sedentary
behaviours. Watching television for more than 3.5 hours per day is associated with a dose-response
decline in verbal memory over the following six years, independent of confounding variables. These
results are found in particular amongst those with better cognition at baseline and are robust to a range
of sensitivity analyses exploring reverse causality, differential non-response and stability of television
viewing. Watching television is not longitudinally associated with changes in semantic fluency. Overall
our results provide preliminary data to suggest that television viewing for more than 3.5 hours per day is
related to cognitive decline.
date: 2019-02-28
date_type: published
publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39354-4
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-39354-4
lyricists_name: Fancourt, Daisy
lyricists_name: Steptoe, Andrew
lyricists_id: DFANC73
lyricists_id: ASTEP39
actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian
actors_id: DKALI47
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Scientific Reports
volume: 9
article_number: 2851
pages: 8
issn: 2045-2322
citation:        Fancourt, D;    Steptoe, A;      (2019)    Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.                   Scientific Reports , 9     , Article 2851.  10.1038/s41598-019-39354-4 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39354-4>.       Green open access   
 
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