Regular fish consumption and age-related brain gray matter loss

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 444-451

  Raji, Cyrus A ^a,c   Erickson, Kirk I ^c   Lopez, Oscar L ^d   Kuller, Lewis H ^d   Gach, H Michael ^c   Thompson, Paul M ^b   Riverol, Mario ^e   Becker, James T ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; RACE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WAIST HIP RATIO; WHITE MATTER LESION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; FISHES; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84920884234     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.037     Document Type: Article

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