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Genetic and environmental risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in Israeli Arabs.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Jan 2000
Bowirrat Abdalla, Friedland Robert P, Farrer Lindsay, Baldwin Clinton, Korczyn Amos
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OBJECTIVE: We studied the genetic and environmental risk factors and prevalence, and incidence of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) among the elderly in an Arab community in Israel. BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and genetic studies of dementia have rarely been reported in an Arab population. METHODS: All persons aged 60 years or older who were residents of the rural area of Wadi Ara were examined for...
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