Resumen de Modern living makes 90-year-olds cleverer
Danish people born in 1915 were about a third more likely to live to their 90s than those born in 1905, and were smarter too, found Kaare Christensen, head of the Danish Aging Research Center at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, and his colleagues. During research spanning 12 years and involving more than 5000 people, the team gave nonagenarians born in 1905 and 1915 a standard test called a "mini mental state examination," and cognitive tests designed to pick up age-related changes. Not only did those born in 1915 do better at both sets of tests, more of them also scored top marks in the mini-mental state exam.
