Development of a New Method for Assessing Global Risk of Alzheimer's Disease for Use in Population Health Approaches to Prevention

Prevention Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 411-421

  Anstey, Kaarin J ^a   Cherbuin, Nicolas ^a   Herath, Pushpani M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Risk assessment; Risk index; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879779694     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-012-0313-2     Document Type: Article

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