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Table 1 Overview of what has been measured in the LiKO-15 and DiaKO-19 studies

From: The Danish Aging and Cognition (DanACo) cohort

 

LiKO-15

DiaKO-19

Baseline assessment (conscription board examination)

 Personal identification number (CPR-number)

X

X

 Date and place of conscription board assessment

X

X

 Date of birth and age at examination

X

X

 Intelligence test score (BPP, full score)

X

X

 Height (cm) and weight (kg)

X

X

 Educational level at time of assessment

X

X

Follow-up assessment

 Date, age at follow-up, and re-test interval

X

X

 Intelligence test score (BPP, full score and subtest scores)

X

X

 Anthropometric data

  

  - Self-reported data on height and weight

X

X

  - Measured height, weight, and waist-circumference (subsample of the DiaKO-19 participants)

 

X

 Sociodemographic factors

(Educational level, employment status, and type of residence)

X

X

 Social relations

(Social network (children, partner, living alone), practical and emotional support, loneliness)

X

X

 Lifestyle

(Alcohol consumption, dietary habits, tobacco consumption, physical activity, sleep quality, and recreational drug use)

X

X

  - More detailed information on alcohol use and misuse and recreational drug use

X

 

 Health

(Self-rated health, disease history, use of medication, and Major Depression Inventory)

X

X

  - Detailed information on concussions

X

X

  - Detailed information on cognitive functioning

X

X

  - Detailed information on type 2 diabetes

 

X

  - Detailed information on depression

 

X

 Personality

  

  - BFI-10

X

 

  - BFI, subscales of neuroticism and conscientiousness

 

X

 State of mind at the follow-up examination

(Recent intake of drugs or medicine and general state of mind at the follow-up examination)

X

X

 Motivation at conscription board cognitive ability testing

(The extent to which the individual tried his best when completing the BPP)

X

X

Derived measures

 Age-related cognitive changes

  

  - Direct measure derived by subtracting the follow-up BPP-score from the baseline BPP-score

X

X

Follow-up in national health and administrative registries

 - Between baseline and follow-up

X

X

 - After the follow-up examination

X

X

  1. Abbreviations: LiKO-15 Lifestyle and Cognition Follow-up study 2015, DiaKO-19 Diabetes and Cognition Follow-up study 2019, CPR Central Person Registry, BPP Børge Prien’s Prøve (the military intelligence test); BFI: Big Five Inventory