Increased amygdalar and hippocampal volumes in elderly obese individuals with or at risk of cardiovascular disease

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1190-1195

  Widya, Ralph L ^a   De Roos, Albert ^a   Trompet, Stella ^a   De Craen, Anton J M ^a,b   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a,b   Smit, Johannes W A ^a   Van Buchem, Mark A ^a   Van Der Grond, Jeroen ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRAVASTATIN;

AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; PUTAMEN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SMOKING; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYGDALA; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; RISK;

EID: 79956301147     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.006304     Document Type: Article

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