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Associations between stroke risk and cognition in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease with and without depression.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry - 1 Feb 2010
Bangen Katherine J, Delano-Wood Lisa, Wierenga Christina E, McCauley Ashley, Jeste Dilip V, Salmon David P, Bondi Mark W
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BACKGROUND: Stroke risk factors have been increasingly implicated in the development of age-related cognitive decline, the spectrum of vascular cognitive impairment, and, more recently, Alzheimer's disease (AD). In addition, depression and the apolipoprotein (APOE) epsilon4 allele have been reported to influence the association between stroke risk and cognition. However, few studies have described the relations...
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