A population-based study on blood pressure and brain atrophy in 85- year-olds

Hypertension

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 404-409

  Skoog, Ingmar ^a   Andreasson, Lars Arne ^a   Landahl, Sten ^b   Lernfelt, Bodil ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Blood pressure; Cerebral atrophy; Dementia, vascular; Epidemiological methods

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PARIETAL LOBE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0031708282     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.32.3.404     Document Type: Article

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