Mediterranean-Type diet and brain structural change from 73 to 76 years in a Scottish cohort

Neurology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 449-455

  Luciano, Michelle ^a,b   Corley, Janie ^a,b   Cox, Simon R ^a,b   Hernández, Maria C Valdés ^a,c,d   Craig, Leone C A ^e   Dickie, David Alexander ^a,c,d   Karama, Sherif ^g   Mcneill, Geraldine M ^f   Bastin, Mark E ^a,c,d   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,c,d   Deary, Ian J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Brain Research Imaging Centre SINAPSE Collaboration   (United Kingdom)

^d A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration   (United Kingdom)

^e ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIANCE; AGING; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOTLAND; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOTLAND; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85011298915     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003559     Document Type: Article

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