Education and other measures of socioeconomic status and risk of incident Alzheimer disease in a defined population of older persons

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1399-1405

  Evans, Denis A ^a,e   Hebert, Liesi E ^a   Beckett, Laurel A ^a   Scherr, Paul A ^b   Albert, Marilyn S ^c,d   Chown, Marilyn J ^d   Pilgrim, David M ^d   Taylor, James O ^d  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 0030731549     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550230066019     Document Type: Article

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