Genetic and lifestyle predictors of 15-year longitudinal change in episodic memory

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2308-2312

  Josefsson, Maria ^a,b   De Luna, Xavier ^a,c   Pudas, Sara ^b,d   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^c,d   Nyberg, Lars ^b,c,e  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

assessment of cognitive disorders dementia; attrition; cognitive aging; cohort studies; memory

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LABOR; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS;

EID: 84871004396     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12000     Document Type: Article

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