cognitive decline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveanddecline
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cognitive
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/us/ˈkɑːɡ.nə.t̬ɪv/
connected with thinking or conscious ...
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk/dɪˈklaɪn/us/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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A penetrating head injury in young adulthood exacerbatescognitivedeclinein later years.
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Hearing impairment as a predictor ofcognitivedeclinein dementia.
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Lastly, the biological plausibility of the link between benzodiazepine use andcognitivedeclineis not established.
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Investigations continue into the nature of the association between education andcognitivedeclineand dementia.
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Older age, residence in nursing home and functional andcognitivedeclinewere not associated with increased bleeding.
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The evidence from occupational and cognitive psychology does not support a simple 'cognitivedecline' explanation.
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Primary prevention trials are restricted to those in which age-associatedcognitivedeclineand dementia are major outcomes of interest.
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This is a potentially important finding since it supports the idea that subjective memory complaints may represent a realistic appraisal ofcognitivedecline.
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Until recently, investigations of neuroanatomical and neurochemical changes associated with humancognitivedeclinewere limited to postmortem analyses.
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No previous study has explored the existence of a dose-response relationship between benzodiazepine use andcognitivedecline.
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This misclassification, if any, might have decreased the strength of the association between benzodiazepine exposure andcognitivedecline.
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Is there acognitivedeclinein schizophrenia : a cross-sectional study.
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Cognitivedeclinemay have occurred immediately following a stroke.
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However, these differences do not fully explain why opposite findings were obtained regarding the direction of the association between former use andcognitivedecline.
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The use of key-informants to obtain a history ofcognitivedeclineincreased the likelihood of excluding subjects with very mild dementia at baseline.
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These two pathologic states have many common risk factors, and appear to act synergistically to causecognitivedecline.
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Other mechanisms that could potentially causecognitivedeclineare autoimmune vasculitis or allergic hypersensitivity responses to the chemotherapeutic medications.
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Women with cognitive impairment who walked more also experienced lesscognitivedecline.
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As well, sincecognitivedeclineis common as most end-stage illnesses progress, patients who are closest to death are excluded from the majority of studies.
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However, women who receive hormonal therapy also suffer from some degree ofcognitivedecline, which may be similar to the chemobrain phenomenon.
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