Prevalence of dementia and distribution of ApoE alleles in Japanese centenarians: An almost-complete survey in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-155

  Asada, Takashi ^a   Yamagata, Zentaro ^a   Kinoshita, Toru ^a   Kinoshita, Akemi ^a   Kariya, Tetsuhiko ^a   Asaka, Akio ^a   Kakuma, Tatsuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AGED; AGING; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0030032843     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1996.tb02431.x     Document Type: Article

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