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By Richard Downie

UK Telegraph

WOMEN not only outlive men, they also stay cleverer longer, according to research published in a medical journal today.

A study of 599 men and women aged 85 found that the women were mentally quicker and sharper than the men. In word and number recognition tests, a third of the women notched up consistently speedy responses, compared to 28 per cent of the male subjects. Women also beat men in memory tests.

The results of the Leiden University study, conducted in the Dutch town, are published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Participants included married couples, widows, widowers and the unmarried.

The team allowed for the problems of dementia by conducting separate tests on those considered to be fully mentally active. The results were all the more surprising because 70 per cent of female subjects had a poor education, while more than half of the men had been well educated.

This led the research team to suggest that biological, rather than social, differences between the sexes accounted for the results. Women's brains carry on performing for longer because they live longer than men and need to be mentally alert into old age, the researchers concluded.

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