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Risk of dementia associated with the ApoE epsilon4 allele and falls causing head injury without explicit traumatic brain injury.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Sept 2008
Luukinen H, Jokelainen J, Kervinen K, Kesäniemi Y A, Winqvist S, Hillbom M
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OBJECTIVES: Severe head injury (HI) and the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon4 allele are risk factors for dementia. The corresponding effect of falls causing HI without explicit traumatic brain injury (TBI) in association with the ApoE epsilon4 is not known. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Altogether 134 p...
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