Frequency of dementia etiologies in four ethnic groups

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-47

  Hou, Craig E ^a,c   Yaffe, Kristine ^a,b   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASIAN AMERICANS; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745221238     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093217     Document Type: Article

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