Homocysteine and cognitive decline in healthy elderly

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 309-313

  McCaddon, Andrew ^a,e   Hudson, Peter ^b   Davies, Gareth ^b   Hughes, Alan ^c   Williams, John H H ^d   Wilkinson, Clare ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WREXHAM MAELOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Folate; Homocysteine; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; WALES;

EID: 0034953737     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000051275     Document Type: Article

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