Body-mass index and mortality in incident dementia: A Cohort study on 11,398 patients from SveDem, the Swedish dementia registry

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 447.e1-447.e7

  García Ptacek, Sara ^a,b   Kåreholt, Ingemar ^a,c   Farahmand, Bahman ^a   Cuadrado, Maria Luz ^b,d   Religa, Dorota ^a,e   Eriksdotter, Maria ^a,e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Dementia; Epidemiology; Mortality

Indexed keywords

NOOTROPIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OBESITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE DEMENTIA; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; UNDERWEIGHT; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84901483234     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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