The prevalence and severity of white matter lesions, their relationship with age, ethnicity, gender, and cardiovascular disease risk factors: The ARIC study

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 149-162

  Liao, Duanping ^a,h   Cooper, Lawton ^b   Cai, Jianwen ^a   Toole, James ^c   Bryan, Nick ^d   Burke, Gregory ^c   Shahar, Eyal ^f   Nieto, Javier ^e   Mosley, Thomas ^g   Heiss, Gerardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h Univ of N Carolina at Chapel Hill ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

age; cardiovascular disease risk factors; cerebral MRI; ethnicity; gender; white matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 8244237062     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000368814     Document Type: Article

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