Blood pressure and performance on the Mini-Mental State Examination in the very old: Cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Kungsholmen project

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1106-1113

  Guo, Zhenchao ^a,b   Fratiglioni, Laura ^a   Winblad, Bengt ^a   Viitanen, Matti ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aged; Antihypertensive agents; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular diseases; Cognition

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0030955583     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009073     Document Type: Article

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