Vascular Health Indices and Cognitive Domain Function: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-40

  Lim, Shir Lynn ^a   Gao, Qi ^b   Nyunt, Ma Shwe Zin ^b   Gong, Lingli ^c   Lunaria, Josephine B ^c   Lim, May Li ^b   Ling, Audrey ^b   Lam, Carolyn Su Ping ^a,c,e,f   Richards, Arthur Mark ^a,c,d   Ling, Lieng Hsi ^a,c   Ng, Tze Pin ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^f DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; carotid intima media thickness; cognition; endothelial function

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATTENTION; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITION; ELASTICITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; REACTIVE HYPEREMIA INDEX; SINGAPORE; VERBAL MEMORY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITIVE AGING; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; COGNITIVE AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SINGAPORE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84954093264     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-150516     Document Type: Article

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