Association of depression with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in an elderly Arab population of Wadi-Ara, Israel

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 246-251

  Bowirrat, Abdalla ^a   Oscar Berman, Marlene ^b,c   Logroscino, Giancarlo ^d  

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; ApoE genotype; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARAB; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIA; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 33645559128     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1455     Document Type: Article

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