Helicobacter pylori infection, dementia and primary open-angle glaucoma: Are they connected?

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tsolaki, Fani ^a   Kountouras, Jannis ^b   Topouzis, Fotios ^b   Tsolaki, Magda ^b  

^a Aristotle University and Hippokration General Hospital   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dementia; Helicobacter pylori; Neurodegenerative disease; Primary open angle glaucoma

Indexed keywords

COMPLICATION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS;

DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84928151762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12886-015-0006-2     Document Type: Article

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