Vitamin B12 status and rate of brain volume loss in community-dwelling elderly

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 826-832

  Vogiatzoglou, A ^a,b   Refsum, H ^a,b   Johnston, C ^a   Smith, S M ^c   Bradley, K M ^a   De Jager, C ^a   Budge, M M ^a,d   Smith, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E EPSILON4; COBALAMIN DERIVATIVE; CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOLOTRANSCOBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; TRANSCOBALAMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMUNITY LIVING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHYLMALONIC ACIDEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOLUNTEER; ATROPHY; BLOOD; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 53049084486     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000325581.26991.f2     Document Type: Article

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