Lower vitamin D is associated with white matter hyperintensity in elderly women with Alzheimer's disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1993-1994

  Sakurai, Takashi ^a   Ogama, Noriko ^a   Toba, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CYSTATIN C; HOMOCYSTEINE; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MEDICAL HISTORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SMOKING; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; AGED; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; FEMALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VITAMIN D; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84911961638     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13048     Document Type: Letter

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