Healthy Aging and Dementia: Findings from the Nun Study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 139, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 450-454

  Snowdon, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CENTENARIAN; CLERGY; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR LESION; ARTICLE; GENETICS; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RELIGION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEMENTIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RELIGION;

EID: 0141831172     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-139-5_part_2-200309021-00014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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