Shoham, N;
Cooper, C;
(2020)
How advances in epidemiology are influencing older adult psychiatry.
BJPsych Advances
, 26
(2)
pp. 104-105.
10.1192/bja.2019.69.
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Abstract
Shortcomings of randomised controlled clinical trials include their high cost, which often precludes very long-term studies and very large populations, and ethical constraints of randomisation. Observational studies are a valuable alternative and we outline their use in epidemiological research to study very long-term effects of lifestyle and medication on dementia, to explore (using Mendelian randomisation) the association between Alzheimer's dementia and individual traits, and to evaluate population-wide health inequalities and lifespan changes in risk factors for psychiatric illness.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How advances in epidemiology are influencing older adult psychiatry |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1192/bja.2019.69 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2019.69 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10093519 |
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