Lifestyle risk and delaying factors

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Gatz, Margaret ^a,b   Prescott, Carol A ^a   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dementia; Education; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DISEASES IN TWINS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LIFE STYLE; RISK FACTORS; TWIN STUDIES; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 33747610721     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002093-200607001-00013     Document Type: Article

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