Multiple pathologies are common and related to dementia in the oldest-old: The 90 + Study

Neurology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 535-542

  Kawas, Claudia H ^a,b   Kim, Ronald C ^c   Sonnen, Joshua A ^d   Bullain, Szofia S ^a   Trieu, Thomas ^b   Corrada, María M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MACROINFARCTION; BRAIN MICROINFARCTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLIOBLASTOMA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTICAL ARTERIOLOSCLEROTIC LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; AGING; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84938945346     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001831     Document Type: Article

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