Survival in Alzheimer disease: A multiethnic, population-based study of incident cases

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 1489-1495

  Helzner, E P ^a   Scarmeas, N ^a,b   Cosentino, S ^a   Tang, M X ^a,b   Schupf, N ^a,b   Stern, Y ^a,b,c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b P and S Box 16 ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE; STROKE; UNITED STATES; ETHNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 56149092961     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000334278.11022.42     Document Type: Article

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