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Memory complaints and APOE-epsilon4 accelerate cognitive decline in cognitively normal elderly.
Neurology - 26 Dec 2001
Dik M G, Jonker C, Comijs H C, Bouter L M, Twisk J W, van Kamp G J, Deeg D J
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate to what extent subjective memory complaints and APOE-epsilon4 allele carriage predict future cognitive decline in cognitively intact elderly persons, by evaluating both their separate and combined effects. METHODS: We selected 1,168 subjects from the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam who were 62 to 85 years of age and had no obvious cognitive impairment at baseline...
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