The role of low plasma thiamin levels in cognitively impaired elderly patients presenting with acute behavioral disturbances

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2166-2168

  Vognar, Lidia ^a   Stoukides, John ^a  

^a Roger Williams Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

AGED; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BERIBERI; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIETARY INTAKE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT INFORMATION; POLYPHARMACY; RISK FACTOR; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; UNITED STATES; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 70350448494     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02542.x     Document Type: Letter

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