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Apolipoprotein E genotype and the risk of recurrent lobar intracerebral hemorrhage.
The New England journal of medicine - 27 Jan 2000
O'Donnell H C, Rosand J, Knudsen K A, Furie K L, Segal A Z, Chiu R I, Ikeda D, Greenberg S M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recurrent lobar intracerebral hemorrhage is the hallmark of cerebral amyloid angiopathy. The factors that predispose patients to early recurrence of lobar hemorrhage are unknown. One candidate is the apolipoprotein E gene, since both the epsilon2 and the epsilon4 alleles of apolipoprotein E appear to be associated with the severity of amyloid angiopathy. METHODS: We performed a prospective,...
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