Do Early Intelligent Scores Predict Long-term Achievement: A Quadrennial Longitudinal Study

A Long-Term Longitudinal Study

Background and Purpose—Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a rare inherited disorder associated with cardiac involvement. We investigated the spectrum and relevance of the cardiac manifestations of EDMD, focusing on bradyarrhythmias and tachyarrhythmias (including atrial fibrillation/flutter), embolic stroke, and heart failure. Methods and Results—Eighteen patients (age 42.8 19.6 years)...

Predicting Patterns of Early Literacy Achievement: A Longitudinal Study

Implicit theories of intelligence predict achievement across an adolescent transition: a longitudinal study and an intervention.

Two studies explored the role of implicit theories of intelligence in adolescents' mathematics achievement. In Study 1 with 373 7th graders, the belief that intelligence is malleable (incremental theory) predicted an upward trajectory in grades over the two years of junior high school, while a belief that intelligence is fixed (entity theory) predicted a flat trajectory. A mediational model inc...

Long term and transitional intermittent smokers: a longitudinal study.

OBJECTIVE To investigate differences in snuff consumption, sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics between baseline intermittent smokers that had become daily smokers, stopped smoking or remained intermittent smokers at the one year follow up. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS/MEASUREMENTS A population of 12 507 individuals interviewed at baseline in 1992-94 and at a one year follow up, a...

Long-term follow-up of kidney donors: a longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND Kidney donors are not adversely affected by compensatory hyperfiltration of the remaining kidney in the early years after nephrectomy, but longterm longitudinal studies are lacking. METHODS The renal function and blood pressure of 75 donors was evaluated in 1984, 1.4-20.7 years after surgery. Forty-seven of the original cohort (23 male, age 38-80 years) underwent repeat study a dec...