Mortality in Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 231-236

  Bonsignore, Marzia ^a   Heun, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Alzheimer's disease; Gender; Hospitalisation; Mini Mental State Examination; Mortality

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037217457     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068779     Document Type: Article

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