Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders: Assiut-Upper Egypt study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 323-328

  Farrag, Abdul Kader F ^a,d   Farwiz, Hassan M ^a   Khedr, Eman H ^a   Mahfouz, Refaat M ^b   Omran, Safaa M ^c  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Health Insurance Authority   (Egypt)

^d University Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Assiut, Egypt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0031785313     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017084     Document Type: Article

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