Physical activity, body mass index, and brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 36, Issue S1, 2015, Pages S194-S202

  Boyle, Christina P ^a   Raji, Cyrus A ^a,c   Erickson, Kirk I ^d   Lopez, Oscar L ^d   Becker, James T ^d   Gach, H Michael ^d   Longstreth, W T ^e   Teverovskiy, Leonid ^d   Kuller, Lewis H ^f   Carmichael, Owen T ^g   Thompson, Paul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Body mass index; Physical activity; Tensor based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BIOMARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84916624468     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.05.036     Document Type: Article

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