Sibbett, Ruth A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9796-8285
Altschul, Drew M.
Marioni, Riccardo E.
Deary, Ian J.
Starr, John M.
Russ, Tom C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Age UK (disconnected mind grant)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (15/SAG09977, MR/K026992/1)
Scottish Office Home and Health Department (CZB/4/505, ETM/55, CZH/4/213, CZG/3/2/79)
Medical Research Council (MR/K026992/1)
Medical Research Council (Centenary grant)
royal society (wolfson rsearch merit award)
Article History
Received: 5 November 2019
Accepted: 30 January 2020
First Online: 28 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Lothian Research Ethics Committee provided ethical approval for LBC1921 test waves 1–3 (LREC/1998/4/183, LREC/2003/7/23, 1702/98/4/183) and the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee provided ethical approval for the LBC1921 test waves 4 and 5 (10/MRE00/87, 10/MRE00/87). From wave 4, attending participants provided written consent for data linkage and access to health records.
: Not applicable.
: Ruth Sibbett is funded by Alzheimer Scotland (2013–2019; salary). Drew Altschul is supported by a MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder Award (MC_PC_17209). Riccardo Marioni is supported by Alzheimer’s Research UK major project grant (ARUK-PG2017B-10). Ian Deary is supported by the Medical Research Council (salary component of the Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology grant). John Starr was also previously supported by the same. All authors have no competing interests.