Comorbidity in dementia: Update of an ongoing autopsy study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1722-1728

  Magaki, Shino ^a   Yong, William H ^a   Khanlou, Negar ^a   Tung, Spencer ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a,b  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; autopsy; comorbidity; Dementia; neuropathology

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGIOMA; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; AGE; BRAIN; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; LACUNAR STROKE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SEPSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; STROKE, LACUNAR;

EID: 84921666741     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12977     Document Type: Article

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