Physical activity, diet, and risk of Alzheimer disease

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 627-637

  Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,b   Luchsinger, Jose A ^a   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b   Brickman, Adam M ^a,b   Cosentino, Stephanie ^a,b   Tang, Ming X ^b   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEPRESSION; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEW YORK CITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 68849119553     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1144     Document Type: Article

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