Interaction of stress, lead burden, and age on cognition in older men: The VA normative aging study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 505-510

  Peters, Junenette L ^a   Weisskopf, Marc G ^a   Spiro III, Avron ^b   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Sparrow, David ^b   Nie, Huiling ^c   Hu, Howard ^a,d   Wright, Robert O ^a,c   Wright, Rosalind J ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood; Bone; Cognition; Lead; Psychological stress

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELDERLY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SMOKING;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951691482     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901115     Document Type: Article

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