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Prevalence of dementia in Chamorros on Guam: relationship to age, gender, education, and APOE.
Neurology - 22 May 2007
Galasko D, Salmon D, Gamst A, Olichney J, Thal L J, Silbert L, Kaye J, Brooks P, Adonay R, Craig U-K, Schellenberg G, Borenstein A R
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OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of dementia and its clinical subtypes among Chamorros on Guam aged 65 years or older and to examine associations with age, gender, education, and APOE genotype. BACKGROUND: Chamorros, the indigenous people of Guam, had a high incidence of ALS and parkinsonism-dementia complex (PDC), in the 1950s. Over the next 50 years, ALS incidence declined markedly, but PDC only slightly....
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