@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol consumption and cognitive performance in a random sample of Australian soldiers who served in the Second World War",
journal="British medical journal: BMJ",
year="1997",
author="Dent, O. F. and Sulway, M. R. and Broe, G. A. and Creasey, H. and Kos, S. C. and Jorm, A. F. and Tennant, C. and Fairley, M. J.",
volume="314",
number="7095",
pages="1655-1657",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the average daily alcohol intake of older men in 1982 and cognitive performance and brain atrophy nine years later. SUBJECTS: Random sample of 209 Australian men living in the community who were veterans of the second world war. Their mean age in 1982 was 64.3 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 18 standard neuropsychological tests measuring a range of intellectual functions. Cortical, sylvian, and vermian atrophy on computed tomography. RESULTS: Compared with Australian men of the same age in previous studies these men had sustained a high rate of alcohol consumption into old age. However, there was no significant correlation, linear or non-linear, between alcohol consumption in 1982 and results in any of the neuropsychological tests in 1991; neither was alcohol consumption associated with brain atrophy on computed tomography. CONCLUSION: No evidence was found that apparently persistent lifelong consumption of alcohol was related to the cognitive functioning of these men in old age.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-8138",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}