Risk factors for cerebral degenerative changes and dementia

European Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL.1, 1998, Pages 7-16

  Meyer, John S ^a   Terayama, Yasuo ^a   Konno, Shizuko ^a   Akiyama, Hisanao ^a   Margishvili, Gaiane M ^a   Mortel, Karl F ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral atrophy and degenerative change; Cognitive decline; Dementia; Longitudinal analysis; Neuroimaging; Normal human aging; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CELL LOSS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031932558     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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