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The relationship of cardiovascular risk factors to Alzheimer disease in Choctaw Indians.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - 1 May 2011
Weiner Myron F, Hynan Linda S, Rossetti Heidi, Womack Kyle B, Rosenberg Roger N, Gong Yun-Hua, Qu Bao-Xi
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) influence predisposition to and the clinical course of Alzheimer disease (AD), the authors compared Choctaw Indians, a group with known high CRF with white persons with AD. In addition to CRF history, the authors investigated the frequency of apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) genotype andplasma homocysteine (HC) levels. METHOD: The authors...
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