15-year longitudinal study of blood pressure and dementia

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 9009, 1996, Pages 1141-1145

  Skoog, Ingmar ^a   Lernfelt, Bodil ^b   Landahl, Sten ^b   Palmertz, Bo ^a   Andreasson, Lars Arne ^a   Nilsson, Lars ^a   Persson, Göran ^a   Odén, Anders ^c   Svanborg, Alvar ^d  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Vasa Hospital   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030603535     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90608-X     Document Type: Article

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