Low education and childhood rural residence: Risk for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans

Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-99

  Hall, Kathleen S ^a   Gao, Sujuan ^a   Unverzagt, Frederick W ^a   Hendrie, Hugh C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AD; African Americans; Childhood rural residence; Education; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0033974105     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.1.95     Document Type: Article

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