Effects of posttraumatic stress disorder and metabolic syndrome on cognitive aging in veterans

Gerontologist

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 72-81

  Green, Erin ^a,b   Fairchild, J Kaci ^a,b   Kinoshita, Lisa M ^a,b   Noda, Art ^b   Yesavage, Jerome ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Memory; Metabolic Sydrome; Obesity; PTSD; Veterans

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84959893741     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnv040     Document Type: Article

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