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Combined effects of APOE genotype, blood pressure, and antihypertensive drug use on incident AD.
Neurology - 9 Sept 2003
Qiu Chengxuan, Winblad Bengt, Fastbom Johan, Fratiglioni Laura
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To study the hypotheses that APOE-epsilon4 allele may interact with blood pressure to affect Alzheimer's disease (AD) occurrence and that antihypertensive therapy could modify such an effect. METHODS: A dementia-free cohort of 966 community-dwelling persons aged 75 years and older in Stockholm, Sweden was followed to detect patients with AD using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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