Nonmelanoma skin cancer is associated with reduced Alzheimer disease risk

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 1966-1972

  White, Robert S ^a,b,c   Lipton, Richard B ^a,b,c   Hall, Charles B ^a,b,c   Steinerman, Joshua R ^a,d  

^a Saul R Korey Department of Neurology   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology and Population Health ^*  (United States)

^c Einstein Aging Study   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MELANOMA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84879081909     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182941990     Document Type: Article

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