Increased Framingham coronary heart disease risk score in dementia caregivers relative to non-caregiving controls

Gerontology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 131-137

  Von Känel, Roland ^a,b   Mausbach, Brent T ^b   Patterson, Thomas L ^b   Dimsdale, Joel E ^b   Aschbacher, Kirstin ^b   Mills, Paul J ^b   Ziegler, Michael G ^c   Ancoli Israel, Sonia ^b,d   Grant, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Coronary heart disease; Dementia; Framingham Risk Score

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; GENDER; HEALTH; HISTORY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPOUSE;

AGED; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 45249085453     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113649     Document Type: Article

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