Go to the head of the class to avoid vascular dementia and skip diabetes and obesity

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1046-1047

  Knopman, David S ^a,b  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ADULT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK REDUCTION;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 54549083526     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000326899.25052.82     Document Type: Editorial

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