Prevention of cognitive decline in ageing: Dementia as the target, delayed onset as the goal

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 778-779

  Fratiglioni, Laura ^a,b   Qiu, Chengxuan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80051671358     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(11)70145-4     Document Type: Letter

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