Mediterranean diet, alzheimer disease, and vascular mediation

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1709-1717

  Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,b,c   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b,c   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b,c   Luchsinger, Jose A ^a,c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; EDUCATION; ENERGY INTAKE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK CITY; ODDS RATIO; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 33845533439     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.12.noc60109     Document Type: Article

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