Arterial hypertension and cognitive dysfunction in physiologic and pathologic aging of the brain

American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 158-164

  Lanari, Alessia ^a   Silvestrelli, Giorgio ^a   De Dominicis, Pierangelo ^a   Tomassoni, Daniele ^b   Amenta, Francesco ^b   Parnetti, Lucilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERY; BRAIN; COGNITION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIES; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 34548145150     PISSN: 10767460     EISSN: 1751715X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1076-7460.2007.06502.x     Document Type: Review

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