Concordance for cognitive impairment: A study of 50 community-dwelling elderly female-female twin pairs

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-120

  Barak, Yoram ^a   Aizenberg, Dov ^b   Achiron, Anat ^b  

^a ABARBANEL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELDERLY CARE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; REGISTER; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

EID: 0037344809     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/comp.2003.50019     Document Type: Article

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