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Cognitive ability and personality as predictors of participation in a national colorectal cancer screening programme: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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  • Catharine R Gale Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ian J Deary Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jane Wardle Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paola Zaninotto Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • G David Batty Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Catharine R Gale, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK; crg{at}mrc.soton.ac.uk
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Gale CR, Deary IJ, Wardle J, et al
Cognitive ability and personality as predictors of participation in a national colorectal cancer screening programme: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
J Epidemiol Community Health 2015;69:530-535.

Publication history

  • Received September 1, 2014
  • Revised December 22, 2014
  • Accepted December 30, 2014
  • First published February 3, 2015.
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April 27, 2016

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