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Prevalence of dementia and apolipoprotein e genotype distribution in the elderly of buttapietra, verona province, Italy.
Neuroepidemiology - 1 Jan 2000
Benedetti M D, Salviati A, Filipponi S, Manfredi M, De Togni L, Gomez Lira M, Stenta G, Fincati E, Pampanin M, Rizzuto N, Danti G
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the prevalence of dementia and the apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype distribution in the elderly of Buttapietra, a village near Verona, Italy. All residents over the age of 74 (n = 238), including those who were institutionalized, were studied using a direct-contact, single-phase design. The overall prevalence of dementia, clinically defined by DSM-III-R criteria, was 15.8 cases per 100 population,...
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