Association between blood pressure levels over time and brain atrophy in the elderly

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 307-313

  Den Heijer, Tom ^a   Skoog, Ingmar ^b   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^c   De Leeuw, Frank Erik ^a,d   De Groot, Jan Cees ^a,c   Hofman, Albert ^a   Breteler, Monique M B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Blood pressure; Brain; Dementia; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; ATROPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037333644     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(02)00088-X     Document Type: Article

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