Blood pressure and intellectual function in elderly subjects

Age and Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-98

  Palombo, Vincenzo ^a   Scurti, Rosa ^a   Muscari, Antonio ^b   Puddu, Giovanni Maria ^a   Di Iorio, Angelo ^a   Zito, Michele ^a   Abate, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Hypertension; Psychometric impairment

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION LOSS; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; REACTION TIME; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS OF SCHILDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030903612     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.2.91     Document Type: Article

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