Obesity and central obesity as risk factors for incident dementia and its subtypes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 204-218

  Beydoun, M A ^a   Beydoun, H A ^b   Wang, Y ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Dementia; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMENTIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; META ANALYSIS; OBESITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKINFOLD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 42249107660     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00473.x     Document Type: Review

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