Microvascular lesions in the brain and retina: The age, gene/environment susceptibility-Reykjavik study

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 569-576

  Qiu, Chengxuan ^a,b   Cotch, Mary Frances ^c   Sigurdsson, Sigurdur ^d   Klein, Ronald ^e   Jonasson, Fridbert ^f,g   Klein, Barbara E K ^e   Garcia, Melissa ^a   Jonsson, Palmi V ^f,g   Harris, Tamara B ^a   Eiriksdottir, Gudny ^d   Kjartansson, Olafur ^g   Van Buchem, Mark A ^h   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^d,f   Launer, Lenore J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINOPATHY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROVESSELS; RETINAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67249152273     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21614     Document Type: Article

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