Dementia in Qatar

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-82

  Hamad, Ahmad I ^a   Ibrahim, Mohammed A ^a   Sulaiti, Essa M ^a  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIST; QATAR; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; QATAR; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1342310745     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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