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Cholesterol, APOE genotype, and Alzheimer disease: an epidemiologic study of Nigerian Yoruba.
Neurology - 24 Jan 2006
Hall K, Murrell J, Ogunniyi A, Deeg M, Baiyewu O, Gao S, Gureje O, Dickens J, Evans R, Smith-Gamble V, Unverzagt F W, Shen J, Hendrie H
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between cholesterol and other lipids, APOE genotype, and risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) in a population-based study of elderly Yoruba living in Ibadan, Nigeria. METHODS: Blood samples and clinical data were collected from Yoruba study participants aged 70 years and older (N = 1,075) as part of the Indianapolis-Ibadan Dementia Project, a longitudinal epidemiologic study of...
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