PAQUID cohort
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The PAQUID cohort is a group of 3,777 individuals aged 65 years or older who were studied from 1988 until present. Researchers chose the group from at least 91 different areas of southwestern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 to study the effects of different environmental, behavioral, and social vectors of age-related medical conditions and diseases. One of the major research goals was to determine some of the causes of dementia
Dementia
Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging...

 and Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...

 like, for example, the correlation between the levels of aluminum in drinking water and the occurrence of dementia.

The studies were conducted by the Université Victor-Segalen, Bordeaux 2 (UB2)
Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 is the medicine and life sciences center in the University of Bordeaux system, under the Academy of Bordeaux....

 in Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

, France.

The source of the term is "Personnes Agées QUID," which can be loosely translated from French and Latin as "What about the elderly?"
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