Body Mass and White Matter Integrity: The Influence of Vascular and Inflammatory Markers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Bettcher, Brianne Magouirk ^a   Walsh, Christine M ^a   Watson, Christa ^a,b   Miller, Joshua W ^c,d   Green, Ralph ^d   Patel, Nihar ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Neuhaus, John ^a   Yaffe, Kristine ^a   Kramer, Joel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CINGULATE GYRUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BODY MASS INDEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84885817255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077741     Document Type: Article

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