White Matter Hyperintensity Burden and Disability in Older Adults: Is Chronic Pain a Contributor?

PM and R

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 471-480

  Buckalew, Neilly ^a   Haut, Marc W ^b   Aizenstein, Howard ^a   Rosano, Caterina ^c   Edelman, Kathryn Dunfee ^c   Perera, Subashan ^a   Marrow, Lisa ^a   Tadic, Stasa ^a   Venkatraman, Vijay ^b   Weiner, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC PAIN; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84879454848     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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