Alcohol intake and brain structure in a multiethnic elderly cohort

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 662-667

  Gu, Yian ^a   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,b,c   Short, Erica Eaton ^a   Luchsinger, José A ^a,b,d   DeCarli, Charles ^e,f   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b   Manly, Jennifer J ^a,b   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b,d   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b,d   Brickman, Adam M ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Brain atrophy; Cerebrovascular disease; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neuroepidemiology; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BEER; BLOOD; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; ETHNIC GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; WINE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEER; BRAIN; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; WINE;

EID: 84902379912     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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