"Below average" self-assessed school performance and Alzheimer's disease in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 380-387

  Mehta, Kala M ^a,b   Stewart, Anita L ^a   Langa, Kenneth M ^c,d   Yaffe, Kristine ^b,e   Moody Ayers, Sandra ^a,e   Williams, Brie A ^a,e   Covinsky, Kenneth E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognition; Education; Ethnicity; Race

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 69949152330     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2009.07.039     Document Type: Article

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