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Coronary artery disease is associated with Alzheimer disease neuropathology in APOE4 carriers.
Neurology - 9 May 2006
Beeri M S, Rapp M, Silverman J M, Schmeidler J, Grossman H T, Fallon J T, Purohit D P, Perl D P, Siddiqui A, Lesser G, Rosendorff C, Haroutunian V
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between postmortem Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology and autopsy-verified cardiovascular disease. METHODS: The authors examined 99 subjects (mean age at death = 87.6; SD = 8.7) from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Brain Bank who were devoid of cerebrovascular disease-associated lesions or of non-AD-related neuropathology. Density of neuritic...
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