Fifteen-year follow-up of 92 hospitalized adults with Down's syndrome: Incidence of cognitive decline, its relationship to age and neuropathology

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 463-477

  Margallo Lana, M L ^a   Moore, P B ^b   Kay, D W K ^b   Perry, R H ^b   Reid, B E ^b   Berney, T P ^a   Tyrer, Stephen P ^a,b  

^a TYNE AND WEAR NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death; Dementia; Down's syndrome; Neurofibrillary tangles; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SENILE PLAQUE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENILE PLAQUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248574203     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00902.x     Document Type: Article

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