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Lung function and cognitive ability in children: a UK birth cohort study.

Jack GrenvilleRaquel GranellJames William Dodd
Published in: BMJ open respiratory research (2023)
, is independently associated with decreased cognitive ability in children. This low-magnitude association attenuates between ages 8 and 15, while no association is evident with longitudinal change in cognitive ability. Our results support a link between FVC and cognition across the life course, possibly due to shared genetic or environmental risk, rather than causation.
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