Atherosclerosis and dementia: A cross-sectional study with pathological analysis of the carotid arteries

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3614-3615

  Suemoto, Claudia K ^a   Nitrini, Ricardo ^a   Grinberg, Lea T ^a,b   Ferretti, Renata E L ^a   Farfel, José M ^a   Leite, Renata E P ^a   Menezes, Paulo R ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^c   Jacob Filho, Wilson ^a   Pasqualucci, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid stenosis; Dementia; Pathology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84856228277     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.628156     Document Type: Article

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