Total serum homocysteine in senile dementia of Alzheimer type

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 235-239

  McCaddon, Andrew ^a   Davies, Gareth ^b   Hudson, Peter ^b   Tandy, Stephen ^b   Cattell, Howard ^b  

^a Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^b WREXHAM MAELOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cobalamin; Folate; Haptocorrin; Homocysteine; Nutrition; Retinol binding protein; Transcobalamin

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CREATININE; DIET; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0031902352     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199804)13:4<235::AID-GPS761>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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