Hypertension moderates the effect of APOE on 21-year cognitive trajectories

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 431-439

  de Frias, Cindy M ^a   Warner Schaie, K ^b   Willis, Sherry L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

APOE; Cognitive aging; Hypertension; Longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NUMERIC FACILITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ALLELE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; INDIVIDUALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84902979524     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036828     Document Type: Article

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